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 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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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
Bibliography
305
Subject Index
319
Name Index
325
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