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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... consonant clitic consonantal continuant coronal dative directional clitic delayed release diminutive designated terminal element empty category feminine glide G gen . ger . I imp . inch . inf . L lat LF loc . genitive gerund ...
... [ consonant , preceded , in turn , by a vowel , b ) another word follows within a specific domain , and c ) the word where the deletion takes place is a verb . Thus , while in ( 9a ) the final vowel of the verb may be deleted , deletion ...
... consonant in point of articulation to a following non- continuant consonant ; the other rule , Stop Voicing , voices a stop when it is preceded by a voiced consonant . The application of the two rules is exemplified in ( 16 ) , where it ...
... consonant or a cluster other than s followed by another consonant . RS applies , therefore , in ( 20a ) and ( 20b ) , but not in ( 20c ) . ( 20 ) a . Il ragno aveva mangiato metá [ f : ] arfalla . " The spider had eaten half a butterfly ...
... consonant in question is in intervocalic position ) . ( 29 ) a . aveva [ h ] onosciuto Arcibaldo ' ( he ) had met Arcibaldo ' b . viaggia [ h ] ol cammello ' ( he ) travels by camel ' ( < [ k ] onosciuto ) ( < [ k ] ol ) C. ( 30 ) a ...
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 |