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1 online resource (xvi, 565 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 498-562) and index. |
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The reconstruction of the prosody of a dead language is, on the face of it, an almost impossible undertaking. However, once a general theory of prosody has been developed from reliable data in living languages, it is possible to exploit texts as sources of answers to questions that would normally be answered in the laboratory. In this work, the authors interpret the evidence of Greek verse texts and musical settings in the framework of a theory of prosody based on crosslinguistic evidence and experimental phonetic and psycholinguistic data, and reconstruct the syllable structure, rhythm, accent, phrasing, and intonation of classical Greek speech. Sophisticated statistical analyses are employed to support an impressive range of new findings which relate not only to phonetics and phonology, but also to pragmatics and the syntax-phonology interface. |
| Contents |
1. The Physiology of Prosody. Neurology. Respiration. Phonation. Articulation -- 2. The Syllable. Greek Syllable Division. Syllable Duration and Weight -- 3. Rhythm. The Psychology of Rhythm. Rhythm in Speech. Evidence for Greek Speech Rhythm. A Theory of Greek Speech Rhythm -- 4. Pitch. Speech Tone and Song Melody. Pitch in Accented and Unaccented Syllables -- 5. Word Prosody. Development of the Stress Accent -- 6. Connected Speech. Rate and Style of Speech. The Syllable in Connected Speech. Rhythm in Connected Speech -- 7. The Appositive Group. Prosodic Domains. The Processing of Function Words. The Appositive Group. Factors Conditioning Appositive Status. Accent -- 8. The Minor Phrase. Accent -- 9. The Major Phrase and Utterance. The Major Phrase in Greek. Downtrends -- 10. Topic and Focus. Topic and Focus in Greek. |
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| Subject |
Greek language -- Metrics and rhythmics.
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Greek language -- Metrics and rhythmics. |
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Greek language -- Spoken Greek.
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Greek language -- Spoken Greek. |
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Greek language. |
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Oral communication -- Greece.
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Oral communication. |
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Greece. |
| Indexed Term |
Greek language |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Stephens, Laurence D.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Devine, A.M. (Andrew M.). Prosody of Greek speech. New York : Oxford University Press, 1994 (DLC) 94004104 |
| ISBN |
1429405775 (electronic book) |
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9781429405775 (electronic book) |
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1280527056 |
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9781280527050 |
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9780195373356 (paperback) |
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0195373359 (paperback) |
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0195085469 (Cloth) |
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9780195085464 |
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