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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... position in this book . This is not by chance : they are our native lan- guages - Italian and English – and some other languages we have learned for necessity or pleasure - Dutch , Greek , French , and Spanish . We have not , however ...
... positions related to larger constituents , either phonological or syntactic , it appears that their phonological behavior is nevertheless strictly local . That is , they exhibit phonological interactions only with the linearly adjacent ...
... position ; languages that do not allow a particular movement in syntax , move stress to the focused noun phrase ... positions within an IP , as in English , instead , gives cues to rigid word order . The next step would be to investigate ...
... position is untenable . One such rule is Linking- in the RP ( Received Pronunciation ) style of British English , a rule that applies not only across words within a sen- tence , but also across words that belong to different sentences ...
... position taken in the present study is thus that an adequate theory of phonology must provide a way of making reference not only to the morpho - syntactic bracketings of the surface syntactic structure , but also to other syntactic as ...
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 |