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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... English sentence like I gave a book to John , if narrow focus is on the direct object a book , main IP stress is on it . In the Italian sentence with the same meaning , Ho dato un libro a Giovanni , if narrow focus is on the direct ...
... English , a rule that applies not only across words within a sen- tence , but also across words that belong to different sentences , as in There's my mothe [ r ] . I've got to go . Aside from the fact that there is no syntactic ...
... English verse modify the grid representation of prominence within domains specified by prosodic theory ( see also Chapter 10 ) . A model of the prosodic subsystem of phonology differs crucially from the traditional generative model of ...
... English : ( 11 ) [ w [ zlocˇlolz ...... .. ] w → [ wlo CV ] o ... lw W W W W Closer examination of this rule reveals , however , that it can be reformulat- ed as the third type of prosodic rule , that is , as a domain limit rule , in ...
... English and for Modern Greek ( henceforth , simply Greek ) . For each of the phenomena studied in these languages , at least five native speakers were recorded reading a series of sentences and then asked to give grammaticality ...
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 |