Prosodic Phonology: With a New ForewordWalter de Gruyter, 2012 M03 12 - 359 pages Prosodic 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 and caught , we have left behind us what we have neither seen nor caught , we are carrying with us . ' ( Heraclitus , from Hippolytus , Confutation 9,9,6 ) Contents Preface List of Abbreviations and Symbols Chapter 1. Preliminaries.
... Chapter 1. Preliminaries 1.0 . Introduction 1.1 . Interface between phonology and the other components of the grammar 1.2 . Theoretical framework 1.2.1 . The phonological component Phonological representations Phonological rules ...
... Chapter 3. The syllable and the foot 61 3.2 . The foot .... 3.0 . Introduction 3.1 . The syllable 3.1.1 . The domain of the syllable 3.1.2 . The syllable as a phonological domain 3.2.1 . The structure of the foot 61 61 62 72 83 84 3.2.2 ...
... Chapter 5. The clitic group 5.0 . Introduction 5.1 . The mixed behavior of sequences of word plus clitics 5.2 . The construction of the clitic group ... 5.3 . Additional evidence for the clitic group 5.4 . Conclusions 140 141 145 145 ...
... Chapter 9. Prosodic constituents and disambiguation 249 9.0 . Introduction 249 9.1 . Ambiguity 250 9.1.1 . Types of ambiguity 251 .... 9.1.2 . Disambiguation 9.1.3 . Syntactic structure vs. prosodic structure 9.2 . Tow proposals for ...
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 |