An argument that the word order of a given language is largely predictable from
independently observable facts about its phonology and morphology. Languages differ in …

A study of the interface between syntax and phonology that seeks deeper explanations for
such syntactic problems as case phenomena and the distribution of overt and covert wh …

This dissertation develops a theory of contrastive topics (CTs)—what they mean, and how
they are realized. I give a compositional semantics for CT constructions, built on the idea that …

Three eye movement studies examined the role of punctuation in reading. In Experiment 1,
although a comma at the end of a clause facilitated overall reading times for the sentence …

The article discusses interactions between syntactic derivation, semantic scopal relations,
and prosodic phrasing in Japanese. I claim that the Major Phrase (MaP) is a result of the …

If you believe what you read in the papers (no, not those ones-I mean journal articles,
chapters, etc.), you will surely know that linguistics faces a crisis. This is because it is a field …

In previous studies of Japanese intonational phonology, levels of prosodic constituents
above the Major Phrase have not received much attention. This paper argues that at least …

In this article, we propose that three types of focus constructions in Japanese—clefts, in‐situ
focus, and sluicing/stripping—share the same underlying structure and are derived by …

Research on processing in English has shown that verb information facilitates predictive
processing. Because Japanese verbs occur at the ends of clauses, this information cannot …

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 …