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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 69
... syntactic constituents and phonological rules 48 Traces of clitics 49 PRO 50 Traces of wh 53 2.3.3 ... structure of the foot 61 61 62 72 83 84 3.2.2 . The foot as a phonological domain 90 3.3 . Conclusions 103 Chapter 4. The phonological word ...
... Syntactic structure vs. prosodic structure 9.2 . Tow proposals for disambiguation 9.2.1 . The syntactic proposal 9.2.2 . The prosodic proposal 9.3 . A disambiguation experiment 9.3.1 . Hypotheses 9.3.2 . Disambiguation test 253 254 255 ...
... syntactic Interface : The Phonological Word and the Clitic Group 2.1 . Constituent Structure The part of the ... structure and the analysis of clitics , it is not necessary to have as thorough an analysis of the syntax of a language and ...
... syntactic structure and phonological structure . While the former is widely viewed as permitting indefinite depth via recursivi- ty , the latter was argued to be crucially flatter in this regard , an issue that has recently been brought ...
... syntactic , it appears that their phonological behavior is nevertheless ... structure seen above , the CG do- minates syllables , thus permitting a ... structure between morpho - syntax and phonology . 2.2 . Psycholinguistic Evidence 12 ...
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 |