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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... 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 phonological ... word 109 4.0 . Introduction 109 4.1 . o ...
... phonological interfaces with these other areas , attests to the fundamental ... phonological interfaces with the other components of grammar , we can only ... Word and Clitic Group , our work shares a common theme . Although we have ...
... phonology with the morpho - syntax . In particular , the Phonological Word and Clitic Group are discussed . Subsequently , we consider the interface with syn- tax , specifically in relation to the Phonological Phrase and Intonational ...
... Phonological Phrase extends from the left edge of a phrase to the right edge ... Word order is also signaled by main prominence which is located at the right ... Phonological Phrases . For example , in the French [ chat grincheux ] ( cat ...
... word order parameter is left to set . Prelexical setting of word order would account for the fact that when children start combining two words , they do not make mistakes in their relative order . ― Specifically , on the basis of ...
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 |