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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... language and an under- standing of potentially complex phrase structures in order to examine the PW and CG , as opposed to the larger constituents . The second , negative , reason is that the original proposal in Prosodic Phonology can ...
... language processing , we can conclude that the CG is the appropriate constituent for determining this complexity . That is , instead of considering the PW to be the crucial structure for speech encoding , we have evidence that the CG is ...
... languages and at its left edge in complement - head languages . One question that has been addressed in the last 10 years is whether the constituent is used on - line in language perception and processing . It has been shown , for ...
... language of exposure ? The two consti- tuents that have played a major role in this line of investigation are the o and the Intonational Phrase ( IP ) . In one of the first works appealing to prosodic bootstrapping for the acquisition ...
... languages , such as German or Dutch . In these languages , if a head and its comple- ment are contained in the same o , its prominence varies according to whether the head precedes or follows its complement , thus indicating for each ...
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 |