Prosody of Greek Speech

Zusatztext The authors in effect update work done on the subject by! among-others! Dionysios of Halikarnassos Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This study interprets ancient Greek verse texts and musical settings in the framework of a theory of prosody based on cross-linguistic evidence and experimental phonetic and psycholinguistic data. It reconstructs the syllable structure, rhythm, accent, phrasing and intonation of Greek speech.

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• Authors: A. M. Devine, A. M. (Professor of Classics Devine, A. M. Stephens Devine, Andrew M. Stephens Devine, Laurence D. Stephens, Laurence D. (Adjunct Professor of Classics Stephens
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.03.1995
• EAN: 9780195085464
• ISBN: 978-0-19-508546-4
• No. of pages: 584
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics