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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... shown , this is true with regard to the Clitic Group as well as the Phono- logical Phrase and the Intonational Phrase , and with regard to both lan- guage acquisition and adult linguistic behavior . In the following sections , we first ...
... shown here , it is also possible that only a single level may be skipped . This situation may arise with function words that are more substantial than single syllables , but nevertheless cannot be considered PWs . Assuming that such ...
... shown , for example , that the constrains lexical access both in adults and in infants of 10 and 13 months of age . Specifically , lexical access is delayed in adults if a local ambiguity is contained within a ò̟ , but not if it ...
... shown , furthermore , that at only a few weeks of age , infants discriminate the two languages only on the basis of promi- nence at the level of the Phonological Phrase , thus lending plausibility to the proposed bootstrapping mechanism ...
... shown to allow word segmentation both in adults and in in- fants . That is , participants habituated with artificial streams of speech in which tri - syllabic words are defined exclusively on the statistical cohe- rence of their ...
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 |