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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... seen in ( 8a ) , nor does it apply in the same segmental context where no morpheme juncture intervenes , as seen in ( 8b ) . ( 8 ) a . carre [ t : Joiere → * carre [ t : s ] iere ( cf. carre [ t : Jiere ) den [ t ] e iera → * den [ ts ] ...
... seen in the preceding sections , there are certain phonological rules that apply in contexts that are specified directly in terms of morpho- syntactic constituents . This is not the case , however , for all phonological rules . It will ...
... seen in ( 25 ) , there is no reason to expect RS not to apply between W 2 and w ̧ in ( 25b ) , since it W3 applies in all the other positions . ( 25 ) W W W 3 1 a . b . ... [ tré [ colibrí [ brutti ] ] ] W WA W 3 ... [ tré [ colibrí ...
... seen in which the rule operates within a VP , while in the examples in ( 30 ) , cases are seen in which the rule does not normally apply between an NP and a VP , even though the appropriate phonological conditions are present ( i.e. ...
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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 |