This article provides an overview of current and historically important issues in the study of
the syntax–prosody interface, the point of interaction between syntactic structure and phrase …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

One function of prosodic phrasing is its role in aiding in the recoverability of syntactic
structure. In recent years, a growing body of work suggests it is possible to find concrete …

This article analyzes mismatches between syntactic and prosodic constituency in Irish and
attempts to understand those mismatches in terms of recent proposals about the nature of …

Phonological alternations are often specific to morphosyntactic context. For example, stress
shift in English occurs in the presence of some suffixes,-al, but not others,-ing:,,. In some …