PROSODY-SCOPE MATCH AND MISMATCH IN TOKYO JAPANESE <i>WH</i>-QUESTIONS

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It has been claimed that Tokyo Japanese wh-questions exhibit a prosody-scope correspondence between focus intonation, which is always observed in wh-questions, and scope of those wh-questions (Deguchi and Kitagawa (2002), Ishihara (2002)). Based on experimental data, it is shown that when the wh-phrase is moved out of the scope of the wh-question by scrambling, focus intonation and wh-scope no longer show a correspondence. It will be argued that the Multiple Spell-Out model proposed in Ishihara (2003), which accounts for the Focus Intonation-Wh-scope Correspondence phenomena, also accounts for this apparently exceptional mismatch case.

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