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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... illustrated with the sentence in ( 1 ) , as shown in ( 2a - b ) . Both structures further involve the absence of the CG , when it is assumed that the PW level is dominated , instead , by the Phonological Phrase . 5 ( 2 ) a . PW ' σ σ PW ...
... illustrated in ( 3 ) , where the CG dominates items that are not PWs , but simply syllables . ( 3 ) CG σσ me li ri PW separa Such a structure continues to capture the original difference in pho- nological behavior between PWs and larger ...
... illustrated by Selkirk's ( 1972 ) analysis of Liaison in French . Thus the application of Liaison in a sentence such as Il y a encore deux après - midi ' There are still two afternoons ' and its lack of application in the same segmental ...
... than binary branch- ing structures in the sense that the former are essentially flat , while the latter allow , in principle , trees of unlimited depth , as illustrated below . ( 4 ) a . X X X ... b 8 Prosodic Phonology.
... illustrated in ( 5b ) . No such intermediate structure exists in the n - ary branching structure in ( 5a ) . ( 5 ) a . b . Y X , The extra ( circled ) node in the binary branching tree represents a level of structure that does not ...
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 |