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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... domain of application of Raddoppiamento Sintattico and the phonological phrase 165 6.2 . Restructuring of the phonological phrase 172 6.3 . Other p - level phenomena in Italian 174 6.4 . The phonological phrase in languages other than ...
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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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