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
... prosodic rules 34 2.3 . Failure of syntactically specified contexts of prosodic phenomena 36 2.3.1 . Noncorrespondence between syntactic constituents and domains of phonological rules Bracketings 338336 37 Length of constituents Beyond ...
... rules 285 10.3.1 . Metrical rules 285 10.3.2 . Prosodic rules 289 10.4 . Conclusions 295 Chapter 11. Conclusions .299 Bibliography 305 Subject Index 319 Language and Rule Index 322 Name Index 325 Preface - This book is the result of a ...
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Contents
Motivation for prosodic constituents | 27 |
The syllable and the foot | 61 |
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The phonological word | 109 |
The clitic group | 145 |
The phonological phrase | 165 |
The intonational phrase | 187 |
The phonological utterance | 221 |
Prosodic constituents and disambiguation | 249 |
Prosodic domains and the meter of the Commedia | 273 |
Conclusions | 299 |
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