Prosodic Phonology: With a New ForewordProsodic Phonology by Marina Nespor and Irene Vogel is now available again. "Nespor & Vogel 1986" is a citation classic - even after twenty years, it is still recognized as the standard resource on Prosodic Phonology. This groundbreaking work introduces all of the prosodic constituents (syllable, foot, word, clitic group, phonological phrase, intonational phrase and utterance) and provides evidence for each one from numerous languages. Prosodic Phonology also includes a chapter in which experimental psycholinguistic data support the proposed hierarchy. A perceptual study provides evidence that prosodic constituent structure - not syntactic constituent structure - predicts whether listeners are able to disambiguate different types of ambiguous sentences. A chapter on the phonology of poetic meter examines portions of Dante's Divine Comedy. It is demonstrated that the constituents proposed for spoken language also make interesting predictions about literary metrical patterns. Prosodic Phonology is an important reference not only for phonologists, but for all linguists interested in the issue of interfaces among the components of grammar. It is also a basic resource for psycholinguists and cognitive scientists working on linguistic perception and language acquisition. |
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... references and index . ISBN 978-3-11-019789-1 ( cloth : alk . paper ) ISBN 978-3-11-019790-7 ( pbk . : alk . paper ) 1. Grammar , Comparative and general Phonology . 2. Pro- sodic analysis ( Linguistics ) I. Vogel , Irene , 1952- P217.3 ...
... References Bion , R. A. H. , B. Höhle and M. Schmitz ( 2007 ) . The role of prosody on the perception of word - order differences by 14 - month - old German infants . Proceedings of ICPhS 2007. 1537-1540 . Bolton , T.L. ( 1894 ) Rhythm ...
... reference to nonphono- logical notions , it is of crucial importance that the resulting prosodic con- stituents are not necessarily isomorphic to any constituents found else- where in the grammar . Specifically , the prosodic ...
... reference not only to the morpho - syntactic bracketings of the surface syntactic structure , but also to other syntactic as well as semantic notions . This is achieved in the model presented in this book by means of the mapping rules ...
... reference to a phonological unit X1 , we can conclude that Xi does not exist in that language . First of all , it is always possible that a rule that refers to X ' exists but has not yet been discov- ered . Secondly , and more ...
Contents
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Chapter 3 The Syllable and the Foot | 61 |
Chapter 4 The Phonological Word | 109 |
Chapter 5 The Clitic Group | 145 |
Chapter 6 The Phonological Phrase | 165 |
Chapter 7 The Intonational Phrase | 187 |
Chapter 8 The Phonological Utterance | 221 |
Chapter 9 Prosodic Constituents and Disambiguation | 249 |
Chapter 10 Prosodic Domains and the Meter of the Commedia | 273 |
Chapter 11 Conclusions | 299 |
Bibliography | 305 |
Subject Index | 319 |
Language and Rule Index | 322 |
Name Index | 325 |