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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... Phonetically null syntactic constituents and phonological rules 48 Traces of clitics 49 PRO 50 Traces of wh 53 2.3.3 . Noncorrespondence between syntactic constituents and domains of intonation contours 2.4 . On motivating a ...
... phonetic realiza- tion of main prominence within os that contain more than one word . That is , prominence is realized more through pitch and intensity in stress - initial os , and more through lengthening in stress - final os . Since ...
... phonetic changes . That is , each prosodic constituent serves as the domain of application of specific phonological rules and phonetic processes . The development of a theory that accounts for such domains thus represents a change of ...
... phonetic cues , suggests that it is precisely the set of prosodic consti- tuents , rather than other types of constituents , that accounts for the first level of processing in speech perception . The relevance of prosodic phrasing for ...
... results from low - level phonetic processes , and therefore that such viola- tions of the Strict Layer Hypothesis do not exist at the phonological level . While this does not seem totally unreasonable , there is Preliminaries 13.
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 |