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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... sequences of word plus clitics 5.2 . The construction of the clitic group ... 5.3 . Additional evidence for the clitic group 5.4 . Conclusions 140 141 145 145 145 149 157 162 Chapter 6. The phonological phrase 165 6.0 . Introduction 6.1 ...
... sequences that are contained within a , but not syllable sequences that straddle two os , are hypothesized by the listener to constitute words . A subsequent experiment was designed to test whether the Phonolog- ical Phrase also ...
... sequence [ ng ] before er in words such as finger and longer , as opposed to the single segment [ n ] before er in singer and at the end of the word sing , Chomsky and Halle ( 1968 : 85 ) make crucial use of the distinction between word ...
... sequences of segments , as opposed to rules that modify prominence relations and autosegmental associations . Examples of the various types of segmental rules , as well as rules that affect prominence relations and autosegmental ...
... sequences of sounds . The crucial difference between the rules in the two frameworks is that in the traditional generative framework , phonological rules operate in domains defined in terms of morpho - syntactic constitu- ents , while ...
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 |