This dissertation takes a Minimalist approach to phonology, treating the phonological module as a system of abstract symbolic computation, divorced from phonetic content. I …
S Ishihara - Handbook of Japanese phonetics and phonology, 2015 - degruyter.com
This chapter surveys theoretical and empirical issues related to the syntax–phonology interface in Japanese. 1 In this chapter, the term syntax–phonology interface will be used to …
Since Juan Uriagereka originated the multiple spell-out model in 1999 it has been one of the most influential lines of research in syntactic theorizing. The model simplified a crucial …
This book explores theoretical issues of the syntax-phonology interface within the Minimalist Program of linguistic theory and proposes an entirely new approach to prosodic categories …
This dissertation examines phonology and its interface with morphology and/or syntax. Current models diverge in terms of what phonology may reference in order to delimit …
J Kandybowicz - Linguistic Inquiry, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
I argue that verbal resumption (the occurrence of an additional default verbal element yε meaning 'do') in Asante Twi is prosodically conditioned. Following the MATCH theory of …
This dissertation provides a novel perspective on the interaction between quantifier scope and ellipsis. On the empirical side, it investigates the scopal behavior of English negative …
There is a longstanding debate in the literature about if, and where, recursion occurs in prosodic structure. While there are clear cases of genuine recursion at the phrase level and …
B Samuels - Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, 2010 - Citeseer
Throughout the generative era, several cyclic models of phonology have been proposed. The first of these was Chomsky et al.(1956), which introduced the phonological cycle, a …