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 constituents and disambiguation 249 9.0 . Introduction 249 9.1 . Ambiguity 250 9.1.1 . Types of ambiguity 251 .... 9.1.2 . Disambiguation 9.1.3 . Syntactic structure vs. prosodic structure 9.2 . Tow proposals for disambiguation ...
... Structure The part of the prosodic hierarchy that probably has received most at- tention in the past twenty years involves the smaller interface constitu- ents - the Phonological Word ( PW ) 2 and the Clitic Group ( CG ) , the top- ics ...
... prosodic structure . Specifically , if we introduce the possibility of a constituent dominating items more than one level lower in the hierarchy , questions arise as to a ) whether all constituents of the prosodic hierarchy are per ...
... structure between morpho - syntax and phonology . 2.2 . Psycholinguistic Evidence 12 In two recent studies , Wheeldon and Lahiri ( W & L ) have proposed that the basic unit of speech production is a prosodic constituent rather than a ...
... structure for speech encoding , we have evidence that the CG is the crucial structure . 3. The Syntactic Interface : The Phonological Phrase and the Intonational Phrase 3.1 . The Phonological Phrase In Prosodic Phonology , the ...
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 |