The Prosody of Greek Speech

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 eliable 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.

Author: A. M. Devine, Laurence D. Stephens
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 12/01/2008
Pages: 584
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.86lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780195373356

About the Author

A. M. Devine is Professor of Classics, Stanford University.

Laurence D. Stephens is Adjunct Professor of Classics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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