Linearizations and prosodic domains
Yoshihito Dobashi · 2019
Chapter 3 , “Linearizations and prosodic domains,” critically reviews the theoretical investigations of phonological phrasing that have been spurred by the development of syntactic conceptions such as phases and Multiple Spell-Out within the framework of the Minimalist Program from the mid-1990s to the 2000s. These investigations are, however, too narrowly focused, as they account for only one layer of the prosodic hierarchy. It is then pointed out that a domain of Spell-Out serves as a prime for linearization, and that this prime is in turn interpreted as a phonological phrase in the phonological component. Generalizing this idea to other kinds of linearization, it is suggested that a prime for the linearization of syntactic terminals and that for the non-syntactic linearization also be interpreted as prosodic domains - the former being the prosodic word and the latter the intonational phrase. The Multiple Spell-Out theory of phonological phrasing is then subsumed under the more general theory of linearization.