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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... theory . It deals with domains in phonology and the interactions between phonology and the other components of the grammar , as well as with such related issues as perception and poetic meter . We have done our best to render the book ...
... theory into more recent linguistic frameworks such as Optimality Theory . In addition , Prosodic Phonology has stimulated research in a variety of areas of psycholinguistics and cognitive science . It is beyond the scope of this brief ...
... theory . The model we assumed originally was a rela- tively early version of X ' theory , but this has been replaced by different versions of the theory , or by other theories in some cases . As a general interface theory , Prosodic ...
... theory is the claim that an appropriate theory should be able to account for the psychological reality of lan- guage . It is noteworthy that the constituent structures of PP in fact pro- vide insightful accounts of psycholinguistic ...
... theory , it is important to carefully evaluate potential challenges as well as their proposed remedies . In cas- es such as ( 1 ) , it does appear that the PW has been over - assigned by the SLH . If we completely abandon the SLH ...
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 |