Prosodic Phonology: With a New ForewordWalter de Gruyter, 2007 - 327 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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... Chapter 1. Preliminaries 1.0 . Introduction 1.1 . Interface between phonology and the other components of the grammar 1.2 . Theoretical framework 1.2.1 . The phonological component Phonological representations Phonological rules 1.2.2 ...
... Chapter 3. The syllable and the foot 40 41 46 48 49 50 53 5558 57 58 61 3.0 . Introduction 3.1 . The syllable 3.1.1 . The domain of the syllable 61 61 .... 62 3.1.2 . The syllable as a phonological domain 3.2 . The foot ... 3.2.1 . The ...
... Chapter 5. The clitic group 145 5.0 . Introduction 145 5.1 . The mixed behavior of sequences of word plus clitics 145 5.2 . The construction of the clitic group ..... 149 5.3 . Additional evidence for the clitic group 157 .... 5.4 ...
... Chapter 9. Prosodic constituents and disambiguation 249 9.0 . Introduction 249 9.1 . Ambiguity 250 9.1.1 . Types of ambiguity 251 9.1.2 . Disambiguation .. 253 9.1.3 . Syntactic structure vs. prosodic structure 254 9.2 . Tow proposals ...
Contents
Motivation for prosodic constituents | 27 |
The syllable and the foot | 61 |
53 | 81 |
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 |
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