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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... Phenomena ... xi xxxi 1 1 3 5 6 7 14 17 17 19 21 23 24 322 Chapter 2. Motivation for prosodic constituents 2.0 . Introduction 2.1.Phonological processes in nonphonological contexts 2.1.1 . Morphological contexts 2.1.2 . Syntactic ...
... phenomena in Italian 174 6.4 . The phonological phrase in languages other than Italian 177 ... 6.4.1 . Other right ... phenomena in British English 226 8.1.3 . U - level phenomena in other languages 229 8.2 . Nonisomorphism between the ...
... phenomena in over twenty - five languages , making use of grammars , previous linguistic analyses , and , whenever possible , intuitions of native speakers . Many people have contributed to the development of the ideas present- ed in ...
... phenomena based on the fundamental concepts of the prosodic hierarchy and its constituents . We have also seen extensions of the theory into more recent linguistic frameworks such as Optimality Theory . In addition , Prosodic Phonology ...
... phenomena . As will be shown , this is true with regard to the Clitic Group as well as the Phono- logical Phrase and the Intonational Phrase , and with regard to both lan- guage acquisition and adult linguistic behavior . In the ...
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 |