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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... intonation contours 2.4 . On motivating a phonological constituent 5553 57 58 Chapter 3. The syllable and the foot 61 3.2 . The foot .... 3.0 . Introduction 3.1 . The syllable 3.1.1 . The domain of the syllable 3.1.2 . The syllable as a ...
... intonation contours , given that these aspects of the sound pattern are also sensitive to the constituent structure defined by the units of the 24 Prosodic Phonology.
... intonation contours themselves . Furthermore , we are interested in ' perceived pauses ' rather than ' actual pauses ... intonation patterns themselves , but rather discuss only the domains throughout which intonation contours may extend ...
... intonation contours , a point that has already been touched on in the traditional generative literature ( section 2.3.3 ) . 2.3.1 . Noncorrespondence between syntactic constituents and domains of phonological rules The inappropriateness ...
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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 |