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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... Semantics 1.3 . Data Type of speech Phenomena ... xi xxxi 1 1 3 5 6 7 14 17 17 19 21 23 24 322 Chapter 2. Motivation for prosodic constituents 2.0 . Introduction 2.1.Phonological processes in nonphonological contexts 2.1.1 ...
... semantic components of the grammar is also necessary in that certain types of information contained in the semantic component must be made available to the phonology at the highest levels of the prosodic hierarchy . Thus , the overall ...
... semantic relation that holds between them , specifically , ' sentence , THEREFORE sentence , ' , an issue that will be discussed more extensively in Chapter 8 ( see also Vogel , 1986 ) . Since such semantic relations do not fall within ...
... semantic component , it is important to clarify at the outset the posi- tions we take with respect to a number of theoretical issues regarding the organization of the grammar in general . We will first present our view of the structure ...
... semantic components that are relevant to our discussion of phonology , as well as certain problems regarding the interaction between the phonological and the other compo- nents of the grammar . Morphology 7 In recent years there has ...
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 |