Research on prosody has recently become an important focus in various disciplines,
including Linguistics, Psychology, and Computer Science. This article reviews recent …

The topic of the syntax-phonology interface is broad, encompassing different submodules of
grammar and interactions of these. This chapter addresses one fundamental aspect of the …

This volume provides a guide to what we know about the interplay between prosody-stress,
phrasing, and melody-and interpretation-felicity in discourse, inferences, and emphasis …

In this volume, Luis Lopez sheds new light on information structure and makes a significant
contribution to work on grammatical operations in the Minimalist Program. Through a careful …

The phenomena discussed by the authors range from synthetic compounding in English to
agreement alternations in Arabic and complementizer agreement in dialects of Dutch. Their …

In this paper a novel approach to (a subpart of) the null subject parameter is proposed, in
which the interpretation of a thematic pro in subject position is crucially dependent on the …

This book provides an overview of the phonology of Italian. It covers the different levels of
analysis from individual sounds up to the phrasal level. It focuses on the most widely …

This article demonstrates that the most common prosodic realization of focus can be
subsumed typologically under the notion of alignment: a focused constituent is preferably …

This paper presents a first attempt to outline a cross-linguistic theory of focus realization, that
is, of how different languages express focussing. My point of departure is what I will call the …

1. INTRODUCTION. What is the relation between focus and pitch accents? The studies of
Selkirk (1995) and to a lesser extent Schwarzschild (1999) view pitch accents and focus as …