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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... application is X ' does not necessarily mean that Xi is not relevant for the overall phonological pattern of the language . That is , it may still be necessary in order to define relative prominence relations , or to account for other ...
... phonological representations and that they are in fact the common unit of all the subsystems , the point at which they intersect . Phonological ... application . In a prosodic framework , as in a traditional generative 14 Prosodic Phonology.
... apply in domains defined in terms of the phonological hierarchy . Since in traditional generative pho- nology the domain of application of most phonological rules was assumed to be the word , the domain is often not explicitly expressed ...
... application may be defined exclusively on the basis of the units of the phonological hierarchy mentioned above . While the phenomena treated in traditional generative phonology were usually those operating at and below the word level ...
... phonological rules . In the second and third sections , a number of arguments will be presented that demonstrate why morphological and syntactic constituents cannot constitute the domains of application of certain phonological rules ...
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 |