The Prosody of Greek Speech - Couverture rigide

Devine, A. M.; Stephens, Laurence D.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195085469 ISBN 13 : 9780195085464

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1995

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

The quantity of literature cited should indeed make the book invaluable to anybody interested in tracking down studies relevant to prosody. (Philomen Probert, The Classical Review, Vol.51, No.1, 2001)

The authors in effect update work done on the subject by, among-others, Dionysios of Halikarnassos (Frederick W. Danker, Christ Seminary-Seminex/Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, Religious Studies Review, Volume 23, Number 1/January 1997)

Biographie de l'auteur

A. M. Devine is Professor of Classics, Stanford University. Laurence D. Stephens is Adjunct Professor of Classics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195085469
• ISBN 13: 9780195085464
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 584
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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