Cyclic Spell-Out, Phonological Phrasing and Focus
Yoshihito Dobashi · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 2006
In this paper, I argue that phonological phrasing reflects syntactic cycle, by examining crosslinguistic data on focus and its effect on phonological phrasing. I show that the focus affects the phonological phrasing so that it may delete phonological phrase boundaries to the end of the sentence, but not to the beginning. I argue that those effects of focus receive a principled account in terms of Multiple Spell-Out that applies in a cyclic manner within a bottom-up derivational approach to narrow syntax (Chomsky 2000, 2001a,b, Collins 2002, Uriagereka 1999, Epstein et at 1998).