Prosodic Phonology: With a New Foreword

Marina Nespor, Irene Vogel

Walter de Gruyter, 2007 - Grammar, Comparative and general - 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.

Contents

• Motivation for prosodic constituents: 27
• Beyond the sentence: 46
• The syllable and the foot: 61
• 31: 73
• 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

About the author

Marina Nespor, University of Ferrara, Italy; Irene Vogel, University of Delaware, USA.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Prosodic Phonology: With a New Foreword; Volume 28 of Studies in generative grammar, ISSN 0167-4331
• Authors: Marina Nespor, Irene Vogel
• Editor: Irene Vogel
• Edition: revised
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter, 2007
• ISBN: 3110197901, 9783110197907
• Length: 327 pages