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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... predict the response time latency when subjects are required to supply a specified answer in response to a stimulus question . A potential pho- nological candidate , the number of syllables , also fails to make the cor- rect predictions ...
... predictions about which units may be regrouped when a long Y is broken down into shorter ones , and when short Xs may be grouped into larger ones ( see Chapter 7 ) . The branching structure of phonological trees was originally argued ...
... predictions about the application of a number of phonological rules , evidence that these constituents cannot be the appropriate domains for the rules in question ( section 2.3.1 ) . Secondly , while it follows from a strictly syntactic ...
... predict in terms of syntactic constituents that Liaison applies in the first case but not in the second . The three problems just discussed show that we cannot identify the domains of application of phonological rules with syntactic ...
... prediction is made that the rule will not only apply in the VPs listed in ( 29 ) , but in all VPs , including those in ... predictions , GT does not always apply in all the positions in which its segmental context is present within a VP ...
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 |