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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... Selkirk ( 1996 ) . 5. This approach is taken by Booij ( 1996 ) ; Selkirk ( 1996 ) , Peperkamp ( 1997 ) , Hall ( 1999 ) , among others . 6 . 7 . See Vogel ( in press b ; to appear ) . Kabak and Vogel ( 2001 ) for Turkish ; Vogel and ...
... Selkirk , E. ( 1996 ) . The prosodic structure of function words . In J. Mor- gan and K. Demuth ( eds . ) Signal to Syntax : bootstrapping from syn- tax to grammar in early acquisition . Mahwah , NJ : Erlbaum . 187- 213 . Selkirk , E ...
... Selkirk's ( 1972 ) analysis of Liaison in French . Thus the application of Liaison in a sentence such as Il y a encore deux après - midi ' There are still two afternoons ' and its lack of application in the same segmental environment in ...
... Selkirk's germinal proposal in ' On prosodic structure and its relation to syntactic structure ' ( 1978b ) and an extension of this proposal found in Nespor and Vogel ( 1982 ) . As we men- tioned earlier , the model presented here is a ...
... Selkirk , 1980b ; Nespor , 1983 ) . Finally , it was suggested in Nespor and Vogel ( 1982 ) that the additional constituent structure found in binary branching trees might have a role , if not in specifying the domain of phonological ...
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 |