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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... Phonological Phrase extends from the left edge of a phrase to the right edge of its head in head - complement ... Phonological Phrases . For example , in the French [ chat grincheux ] ( cat - grumbling = ' grumbling cat ' ) , the syl ...
... Phrase ( IP ) . In one of the first works appealing to prosodic ... Phonology , that in head - complement languages prominence is final , while in complement - head ... Phonological Phrase level is iambic , as in English [ The oldest boys ] ...
... phrase the word order that characterizes it . Psychological plausibility regarding the bootstrapping of word order on the basis of the relative prominence within Phonological Phrases comes from the proposal that the physical realization ...
... Phonological Phrase , to the relative order of words within phrases . Main IP prominence universally falls on the rightmost Phonological Phrase in broad focus sentences , otherwise on the consti- tuent that is interpreted as bearing ...
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 |