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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... given constituent as in ( 2a ) , or do we permit any number of levels as in ( 2b ) ? 8 Independently of the answer to these last questions , the introduction of recursivity blurs what has been considered a fundamental difference between ...
... given the theory of interfaces in which some aspects of syntax are projected onto prosodic constituents , can the patterns of sound inform infants about the syntax of their language of exposure ? The two consti- tuents that have played ...
... given string of language into a series of hierarchically arranged phonological constituents that in turn form the contexts within which phonological rules apply . It is our con- tention that such a prosodic theory forms a subsystem of ...
... given nonterminal unit of the prosodic hierarchy , XP , is composed of one or more units of the immediately lower category , Xp - 1 . Principle 2. A unit of a given level of the hierarchy is exhaustively contained in the superordinate ...
... given node branched and the direction of branching of the tree ( see among others , Liberman and Prince , 1977 ; Wheeler , 1981 ) . It is interesting to note that the binary structures and assignment of s and w to the sister nodes in ...
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 |