Prosodic Phonology: With a New Foreword

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Walter de Gruyter, 2007 - 327 pages

Prosodic Phonology by Marina Nespor and Irene Vogel is finally available again. "Nespor & Vogel 1986" is a citation classic, and even after twenty years, it is still recognized as the standard resource on Prosodic Phonology. This groundbreaking work introduces all of the prosodic domains (syllable, foot, word, clitic group, phonological phrase, intonational phrase and utterance) and comments on the evidence in their favor from numerous languages. It also contains a chapter on the phonology of poetic meter, and a chapter on the experimental testing of the role of the prosodic constituents in the perception of ambiguous sentences. The book is an important reference not only for all phonologists, but for all linguists interested in the problem of interfaces. It is a basic resource also for psycholinguists and for cognitive scientists working on perception of language and language acquisition.

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Contents

Motivation for prosodic constituents
27
Beyond the sentence
46
The syllable and the foot
61
The phonological word
109
The clitic group
145
The phonological phrase
165
The intonational phrase
187
The phonological utterance
221
Prosodic constituents and disambiguation
249
Prosodic domains and the meter of the Commedia
273
Conclusions
299
Bibliography
305
Subject Index
319
Name Index
325
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