27.2718, Confs: Syntax, Phonology/Netherlands

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Subject: 27.2718, Confs: Syntax, Phonology/Netherlands

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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 10:08:12
From: Lisa Cheng [L.L.Cheng at hum.leidenuniv.nl]
Subject: Syntax-Phonology Interface

 
Syntax-Phonology Interface 

Date: 14-Mar-2017 - 14-Mar-2017 
Location: Leiden, Netherlands 
Contact: Laura Downing 
Contact Email: laura.downing at sprak.gu.se 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

Basic questions for theories of the interface:
1- What aspects of syntactic structure condition phonological processes?
2- How to formalize the interaction?

The simplest answer to question 2 is: there is no need for a formalism.
Phonology directly encodes certain information in the syntactic structure.
Theories based on this claim are called direct reference theories of the
interface. Most direct reference theories have been concerned with
demonstrating that phonological interaction between words is more likely if
they are in a local syntactic relationship. In current theories, this means
that they should be in the same spell out domain. In earlier theories,
c-command could define other types of local syntactic relationships.

Indirect reference theories, in contrast, propose that the interface is not
directly conditioned by syntactic structure, but rather is mediated through
constituents in the Prosodic Hierarchy (Nespor & Vogel 1986; Selkirk 1986),
which themselves are (partially) defined with reference to syntactic
structure:
Intonation Phrase = clause (CP or phase)
Phonological Phrase = XP
Clitic Group/Compound Word Group (see recent work by Vogel and Vigario)
Phonological Word = X0

Indirect reference theories more easily allow for the possibility that
non-syntactic factors can also condition phrasal phonology. This is the major
difference between them. Non-syntactic factors include:
- Focus 
- Nonfinality
- Minimality or branching: nominal modifiers induce phrase breaks

Another type of problem for direct reference theories is that cross-linguistic
variation in phrasal parse is relevant for phonological processes. This
variation is unexpected if the relevant syntactic structures are the same.
However, indirect reference theories face their own problems:
- Can they express all relevant notions of syntactic locality?
- Are there sufficient levels in the Prosodic Hierarchy to account for the
range of phrasal processes found within and among languages?

Both approaches must limit the kind of morpho-syntactic information that
phonology can refer to in order to allow cross-linguistic predictions to be
made about possible interactions.

 






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