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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... rules have used the morpho- logical information needed to create the appropriate phonological con- stituents , this information is no longer available to phonological rules . In other words , any phonological rule that applies in a ...
... rules must indeed have access to certain aspects of morphological structure ( see Chapter 4 ) . One possible solution would be to allow the mapping rules to apply before , or at least independently from , the rules of lexical phonology ...
... rules that apply across sentences , and b ) that certain semantic relations that are not subsumed under the logical form component are interpreted phonologically . Since the T - model and the linear model both represent types of ...
... rules examined in the present study apply between words in larger domains . They thus fall into the category of rules often referred to as external sandhi rules . We prefer to use the more general term ' sandhi rules ' , for two reasons ...
... apply only under specific morphological conditions . These may be divided into two general groups on the basis of the type of morphological information required . That is , there are some rules that only need to ' see ' morphological ...
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 |