2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
An empirical and theoretical investigation into computationalefficiency and prosodic hierarchy in the syntax-phonology mapping
| Project/Area Number |
22720190
|
|---|
| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
|
| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
|---|
| Research Field |
English linguistics
|
|---|
| Research Institution | Niigata University |
|---|
Principal Investigator |
|
|---|
| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
|
| Keywords | 文法 / 統語論と音韻論の関係 / インターフェイス |
|---|
| Research Abstract |
On the assumption that syntactic derivation is sent to thephonological component in a cyclic manner, I argued that the mapping from syntax tophonology is constrained by an efficiency condition that prohibits modification ofphonological domains in the course of the mapping. I showed that apparent restructuringcases can be recast in terms of the purely prosodic redefinition of prosodic domains.Moreover, I suggested that the prosodic hierarchy formation is a derivational process thatis also constrained by an efficiency condition.
|
