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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... 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 . Morphological contexts 2.1.2 . Syntactic ...
... speech production is a prosodic constituent rather than a morpho - syntactic one . On the basis of speech production of Dutch speakers , they demonstrate that the number of ( grammatical ) words fails to predict the response time ...
... speech production . Indeed , such items exhibit equivalent speech production latencies . W & L encountered an unexpected finding with compounds , which they origi- nally analyzed as consisting of two PWs , the usual analysis of such ...
... speech , to which infants pay particular attention , complex sentences are very rare . It is thus desirable that the smallest phonological constituent that represents the interface with syn- tax be involved in the bootstrapping of the ...
... speech processing.28 Prosodic cues , however , are not the only cues to speech segmentation and thus to the identification of words : transitional probabilities between syllables have been shown to allow word segmentation both in adults ...
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 |