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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... specific rule for constructing the trees of each category in the respective chapters , where the variables are replaced by the appropriate values . It should be noted that the parallelism among the trees of all the prosodic categories ...
... specific . As far as the details of the patterns of relative prominence and the rules that modify these patterns are concerned , however , a more complex sys- tem will undoubtedly be needed , for example , one that combines the ...
... specific set of operations that modify sequences of sounds . The crucial difference between the rules in the two frameworks is that in the traditional generative framework , phonological rules operate in domains defined in terms of ...
... specific aspects of morphological structure , though the resulting phonological structures are not necessari- ly isomorphic to the constituents of morphology . It should be noted that once the mapping rules have used the morpho- logical ...
... specific semantic notions and phonolog- ical rules . LF is usually assumed to have a position parallel to that of the phonological component with respect to s - structure . That is , it is general- ly accepted that both components have ...
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 |