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. |
From inside the book
... specific deviations or more fundamental issues related to the architecture of the theory itself . In some cases the findings have supported the original proposals , and in others they have indicated the need for certain modifications ...
... specific phonological rules and phonetic processes . The development of a theory that accounts for such domains thus represents a change of focus in the study of phonol- ogy similar to the change that has taken place in the study of ...
... specific phonetic cues , suggests that it is precisely the set of prosodic consti- tuents , rather than other types of constituents , that accounts for the first level of processing in speech perception . The relevance of prosodic ...
... specific morphological contexts but not in others , even when the segmental phonological environments are the same , for example before the -er of the agentive ( si [ n ] er ) but not before the -er of the comparative ( lo [ ng ] er ) ...
... specific relations between the levels of the prosodic hierarchy and the other components of the grammar , further- more , are highly constrained . That is , whether a given mapping rule makes use of a specific type of morphological ...
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 |