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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... metrical hierarchy of the hendecasyllable 274 10.2 . The basic correspondence rules of the hendecasyllable and prosodic categories 277 10.3 . Additional correspondence rules 285 10.3.1 . Metrical rules 285 10.3.2 . Prosodic rules 10.4 ...
... metrical grid , lexical phonol- ogy , autosegmental phonology , and prosodic phonology . The subsystem we will be concerned with in the present study is the prosodic subsystem , and in particular , the theory of domains . Ac- cording to ...
... metrical conven- tions . This will be discussed in Chapter 10 , in relation to Dante's Divina Commedia . The last chapter contains some concluding remarks and the outline of a model of phonology that represents the interface between the ...
... metrical grid , lexical phonology , and prosodic phonology . The model developed in the present study falls under the general heading of prosodic phonology in the sense of Selkirk's germinal proposal in ' On prosodic structure and its ...
... metrical phonology . It was originally claimed that the assignment of strong and weak values of relative prominence depended on the struc- ture of the trees , and specifically on such factors as whether or not a given node branched and ...
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 |