Hamlaoui, F;
Szendroi, K;
(2015)
A flexible approach to the syntax-phonology mapping of intonational phrases.
Phonology
, 32
(1)
pp. 79-110.
10.1017/S0952675715000056.
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Abstract
This paper addresses ‘a central question for [...] any theory of the syntactic- prosodic constituency relation’ (Selkirk, 2011, 17): how to best characterize the notion of ‘clause’ in ALIGN/MATCH constraints related to the syntax-prosody mapping of the intona- tional phrase. We propose that the notion of ‘clause’ should be determined in each construc- tion by making reference to the highest projection in the root clause (see Downing, 1970), to which the verbal material (i.e. the verb itself, the inflection, an auxiliary, a question particle) is overtly moved or inserted, together with the material in its specifier. In other words, we argue that no particular functional head plays a role in the theory of intonational phrasing. In support of this flexibility in syntax-prosody mapping, we discuss data from the Bantu language, Bàsàá, and the Finno-Ugric language, Hungarian. We show that a left-peripheral constituent may be prosodically outside the core intonational phrase even though its syn- tactic position is relatively low, so long as the verb is even lower, and that conversely, a constituent may be phrased inside the core intonational phrase even if it is in a syntactically high position, so long as the verb also moves high.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | A flexible approach to the syntax-phonology mapping of intonational phrases |
Location: | UK |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1017/S0952675715000056 |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0952675715000056 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | © Cambridge University Press 2015 |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Linguistics |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1463443 |
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