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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... relevant constituent used in the bootstrapping of word order comes from mixed word order languages , such as German or Dutch . In these languages , if a head and its comple- ment are contained in the same o , its prominence varies ...
... relevant syntactic parameters.20 The reasoning goes as follows . Promi- nence on the last o not only leads to a broad focus interpretation , it also corresponds to interpretations in which either the last word , or all consti- tuents ...
... relevance of prosodic phrasing for perception is borne out by the results of a test discussed in Chapter 9 , in which the possibility of disambiguating ambiguous sentences was correctly predicted by the prosodic rather than by the ...
... relevant to the interaction of these components with the phonology . 1.2.1 . The phonological component In recent years , the field of phonology has witnessed the development of a number of new theories , including autosegmental theory ...
... relevant for the overall phonological pattern of the language . That is , it may still be necessary in order to define relative prominence relations , or to account for other types of phenomena , such as the commonly observed ...
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 |