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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... Italian structure seen above , the CG do- minates syllables , thus permitting a skipping of two levels : the PW and the Foot . Although not shown here , it is also possible that only a single level may be skipped . This situation may ...
... Italian , or precede it , as in Turkish or Japanese . As established in Chapter 6 of the present vo- lume , the Phonological Phrase extends from the left edge of a phrase to the right edge of its head in head - complement languages ...
... Italian infants have opposite order preferences in an artifi- cial grammar experiment , mirroring the opposite word orders of their respective native languages.24 3.2 . The Intonational Phrase 26 The Intonational Phrase ( IP ) is ...
... Italian crosslinguistic study . Cognitive Psychology . Gleitman , L. and E. Wanner ( 1982 ) . The State of the State of the Art . In : E. Wanner and L. Gleitman ( eds . ) Language Acquisition : The State of the Art . Cambridge , MA ...
... Italian . In M .Mazzola ( ed . ) Issues and Theory in Romance Linguistics : Selected Papers from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XXIII . Washington , DC : Georgetown University Press . 109-125 . Vogel , I. ( 1999 ) ...
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 |