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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... prefix ( ri- ) are attributed PW status , although in reality they do not share the properties of a typi- cal PWs such as separa ( e.g. satisfying the two mora minimality con- straint and exhibiting a primary word stress ) . The ...
... prefix present pronoun purposive terminal syntactic node rhyme Received Pronunciation strong sentence syllable foot singular sonorant strident suffix syllabic trace phonological utterance verb vowel voice vce W weak ω W * [ + W ] WFC IX ...
... ( prefixes , suffixes , and infixes ) . As will be seen , in particular in the chapter on the phonological word ( Chapter 4 ) , different languages make use of the various morphological notions in different ways . What is central in all ...
... prefix in- but not to the pre- fix un- was captured in the SPE framework by allowing the rule to apply across + boundaries but not across # boundaries . The rule , therefore , applies in the case of illegal and irresponsible , but not ...
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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 |