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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... seen and caught , we have left behind us what we have neither seen nor caught , we are carrying with us . ' ( Heraclitus , from Hippolytus , Confutation 9,9,6 ) Contents Preface List of Abbreviations and Symbols Chapter 1. Preliminaries.
... seen investigations of numerous languages and types of phono- logical phenomena based on the fundamental concepts of the prosodic hierarchy and its constituents . We have also seen extensions of the theory into more recent linguistic ...
... seen in another area of language , that is , in verse , where prosodic categories can be seen to provide the appropriate domains in the description of metrical conven- tions . This will be discussed in Chapter 10 , in relation to ...
... seen . That is , while most cases seem to fol- low such a constraint , there are some cases in which the constituent struc- ture of binary branching trees makes incorrect predictions about which units may be regrouped when a long Y is ...
... seen , in particular in the chapter on the phonological word ( Chapter 4 ) , different languages make use of the various morphological notions in different ways . What is central in all cases , however , is the fact that 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 |