Prosodic phonology : with a new foreword / by Marina Nespor and Irene Vogel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nespor, Marina, author.

Vogel, Irene, 1952- author.

Series:

Studies in generative grammar ; 28.

Studies in generative grammar ; 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Prosodic analysis (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed. [with a new preface]

Place of Publication:

New York : Mouton de Gruyter, [2007]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Foreword to the second edition

List of Abbreviations and Symbols

Chapter 1. Preliminaries

Chapter 2. Motivation for Prosodic Constituents

Chapter 3. The Syllable and the Foot

Chapter 4. The Phonological Word

Chapter 5. The Clitic Group

Chapter 6. The Phonological Phrase

Chapter 7. The Intonational Phrase

Chapter 8. The Phonological Utterance

Chapter 9. Prosodic Constituents and Disambiguation

Chapter 10. Prosodic Domains and the Meter of the Commedia

Chapter 11. Conclusions

Bibliography

Subject Index

Language and Rule Index

Name Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110197907

3110197901

9783110977790

3110977796

OCLC:

908039539