Match Theory and prosodic well-formedness constraints

要旨

Besides placing the understanding of syntax-prosody mapping relations on a new and more principled foundation, Match Theory has opened up new perspectives on many prosodic well-formedness constraints, as they impinge on the otherwise expected isomorphism between syntactic structure and prosodic form. Using data from Japanese and Basque, this chapter investigates the role of anti-lapse constraints in pitch accent systems, the finer details of hierarchical equality requirements on sister nodes, the diversity of binarity constraints, and the necessity of distinguishing separate instantiations of syntax-prosody mapping constraints for higher-level syntactic constituents.

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