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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... prosodic structure which attempt to derive prosodic patterns directly from syntactic structure and seeks to explain ... rules of word formation and alternation . Kaisse & Shaw ( 84 ) point out that Lexical Phonology re - introduces morphology ...
... rules mention only sequences of segments and boundaries in their structural descriptions. A further difference between prosodic ... Rule and the Compound Rule--that has been carried out 10.
... prosodic phonology (see Selkirk 1980, Nespor & Vogel 1982, 1986). That is, that constituent of the prosodic ... rules, in the sense that rules apply within a constituent, at the edge of a constituent, or at the juncture between two ...
... (rules 1—3). Rules 4—6 can be conceived of as complements to the prosodic rules. They are connected to semantic criteria or to lexical markers as cues to the natural segmentation of speech. 1. When dividing the transcript into units, the ...
... rules ( or norms ) from types of rules that operate on the text , but on only one level of it . Prosodic rules , for example , are also constitutive rules , but they differ from generic rules in that they operate on only one level 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 |