A prosodic account of -yo attachment in Korean

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In this article we offer a prosodic account for the sentence-medial attachment phenomenon of the particle -yo in Korean. Adopting a derivational approach to prosodic hierarchy formation, we argue that once the particle attaches to the edge of a prosodic unit that Spell-Out defines, it has to be placed at the edge of a prosodic constituent throughout the prosodic derivation. We show that this prosodic account also provides an uncomplicated explanation for certain phenomena which remain puzzling for previous syntactic/morphological analyses.

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