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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... morpheme boundaries ( + ) . The following representations are thus posited for each of the words in question : / fingǝr / , / long + ǝr / , / sing # ǝr / , / sing # / . The deletion of / g / in the third and fourth words , but not in ...
... morphemes ( as proposed , for example , by Halle 1973 ) or words ( as proposed , for example , by Aronoff 1976 ) is of relatively little impor- tance to the model of phonology we propose here . The same can be said about the nature of ...
... morpheme in its formulation : z → → [ -voice ] / ____ + ive ( see Chomsky and Halle , 1968 : 232 ) . Similarly , a ... morphemes within a word - whereas in the view of prosodic phonology presented in this book , where there is an ...
... morphemes or types of morphemes . The rules that need to have access to morphological structure are those that have typically been accounted for by different types of boundaries in their formulations within the SPE framework . For ...
... morpheme juncture . Thus , the rule applies in the words in ( 4a ) , but not in those in ( 4b ) .2 ( 4 ) a . fama giallo - - OSO → famoso astro → giallastro giallastro aio → fioraio castori ' famous ' ' yellowish ' ' florist ...
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 |