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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... rules whose domains of application were implicitly defined in terms of the boundaries of the surface morpho - syntactic constituent structure ( see Chomsky and Halle , 1968 , henceforth referred to as SPE ) . Thus , the interaction of ...
... rule provides more than phonological information ; it allows the rule to apply in specific morphological contexts but not in others , even when the segmental phonological environments are the same , for example before the -er of the ...
... rules apply . It is our con- tention that such a prosodic theory forms a subsystem of the phonological component of ... rules seems to require an interaction between autosegmental theory , which ac- counts for the way in which the rules ...
... apply in domains defined in terms of the phonological hierarchy . Since in traditional generative pho- nology the domain of application of most phonological rules was assumed to be the word , the domain is often not explicitly expressed in ...
... rule types to include more than the original three . A more general question can ... rules at all . We will not examine such phenomena further here , however ... apply ( D. ) . Since the prosodic categories are organized hierarchically ...
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 |