In this tutorial we present evidence that, because syntax does not fully predict the way that
spoken utterances are organized, prosody is a significant issue for studies of auditory …

This paper reviews evidence from recent research on Japanese sentence prosody, in
particular Kawahara and Shinya (2008) on coordinated clauses and Kubo (1989) et seq …

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 …

A phrase consisting of a sequence of lexical words (Lex) 1 in morphosyntactic
representation (S-structure) is characteristically prosodized as a sequence of prosodic …

This book describes Optimality Theory from the top down, explaining and exploring the
central premises of OT and the results that follow from them. Examples are drawn from …

This article argues that the relation between syntactic XPs and phonological phrases is
subject to a constraint, WRAP-XP, that demands that each XP be contained in a …

Research on Japanese prosody, especially on the pitch accent system of the language, has
for a long time found that a single domain “phonological phrase” is not sufficient. Rather, two …

From a phonological point of view, morphological words, ie syntactic atoms, do not
necessarily behave as a unit. For instance, derivational affixes and compound members can …

This dissertation is an empirical and theoretical study of sentence-level prosody in
Conamara (Connemara) Irish. It addresses the architecture of the syntax-phonology …

A key result of studies in phrasal phonology since the 1970's has been the finding that,
crosslinguistically, phrase-level phonological processes do not make use of the vast set of …