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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... phrase in languages other than Italian 177 ... 6.4.1 . Other right recursive languages 177 6.4.2 . Left recursive languages 182 6.5 . Conclusions 184 Chapter 7. The intonational phrase 187 7.0 . Introduction 187 7.1 . Definition of the ...
... Phrase and Intonational Phrase . General conclusions follow . 2. The Morpho - syntactic Interface : The Phonological Word and the Clitic Group 2.1 . Constituent Structure The part of the prosodic hierarchy that probably has received ...
... Phrase and the Intonational Phrase 3.1 . The Phonological Phrase In Prosodic Phonology , the Phonological Phrase ( 4 ) is the most crucial constituent for the interface between syntax and phonology , in that it is proposed to reflect ...
... Intonational Phrase ( IP ) . In one of the first works appealing to prosodic bootstrapping for the acquisition of syntax , it was proposed that the main syntactic parameter responsible for word order , the head - complement parameter ...
... Phrase , rather than the previous one , based on the Intonational Phrase , is that in infant directed speech , to which infants pay particular attention , complex sentences are very rare . It is thus desirable that the smallest ...
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 |