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The Prosody of Greek Speech

by Andrew M. Devine , Laurence D. Stephens , A. M. Devine
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780195373356
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
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  • Pages: 584
  • Original Price: GBP 41.49
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 844 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Ancient Languages

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.

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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