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dc.contributor.authorSurkalovic, Draganaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-31T09:21:38Z
dc.date.available2013-05-31T09:21:38Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.identifier.citationSurkalovic, D. (2013). Modularity, Phase-Phase Faithfulness and prosodification of function words in English. Nordlyd, 40 (1), 301-322 .en_US
dc.identifier.issnOnline: 0332-7531en_US
dc.identifier.issnPrint: 1503-8599en_US
dc.identifier.otherFRIDAID 1011789en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10642/1492
dc.description.abstractThis paper investigates the interface of syntax and phonology in a fully modular view of language, deriving the effects of (morpho)syntactic structure on prosodification without referring to that structure in the phonological computation, contra the use of constraints that map (morpho)syntactic edges or constituents to prosodic ones. The data focus is on function words in English, which receive different prosodic treatment from lexical words. The approach presented here adopts the view of the ‘syntax-all-the-way-down’ approaches, specifically Nanosyntax, which erase the traditional distinction between lexical and functional categories. The paper argues that phonological computation needs to proceed in phases in order to achieve domain mapping while maintaining an input consisting of purely phonological information, and offers a formalization within the Optimality Theory framework by introducing Phase-Phase Faithfulness constraints. Spell-out is attempted at each merge, and is successful when lexical matching is successful. The paper argues that spell-out cannot proceed in chunks but in concentric circles, producing cumulative cyclic input to phonology. An analysis is provided deriving prosodic domains from phases by phonological computation being faithful to the prosodification output of the previous phase. The prosodic word status of lexical words is derived from their status as phase 1 in the derivation.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Tromsøen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNordlyd;40 (1)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Engelsk språk: 020en_US
dc.subjectFunction wordsen_US
dc.subjectEnglishen_US
dc.subjectSyntax-phonology interfaceen_US
dc.subjectSyntactic theoriesen_US
dc.subjectProsodic Phonologyen_US
dc.subjectModular theoryen_US
dc.subjectSyntaxen_US
dc.subjectPhonologyen_US
dc.subjectInterfaceen_US
dc.subjectNanosyntaxen_US
dc.subjectOptimality Theory frameworken_US
dc.subjectPhase-Phase Faithfulness constraintsen_US
dc.subjectSpell-outen_US
dc.titleModularity, Phase-Phase Faithfulness and prosodification of function words in Englishen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7557/12.2507


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