Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory: Theory and Analyses (Advances in Optimality Theory) - Hardcover

Ito, Junko; Kalivoda, Nick

 
9781800502758: Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory: Theory and Analyses (Advances in Optimality Theory)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1800502753 ISBN 13: 9781800502758
Verlag: Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

Optimality Theory has become the dominant approach to studying phonology, including analyses of the mapping from syntactic structure to prosodic structure. However, when syntactic and prosodic structures are represented as trees, it is difficult, if not impossible, to systematically generate by hand all the possible prosodic parses that must be considered in an Optimality Theory investigation for any given syntactic input. Consequently, most existing syntax-prosody analyses are in this way incomplete, compromising their validity.


This volume presents a series of complete analyses of the syntax-prosody interface, thanks to their use of the Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory (SPOT) application. This JavaScript application, developed by the editors of this volume, automates candidate generation and constraint evaluation, making a rigorous Optimality Theory analysis of syntax-prosody possible. SPOT allows the user to test the typological predictions of the numerous proposed constraints on prosodic markedness and syntax-prosody mapping, so that researchers can make progress toward determining which formulations of the constraints should actually be part of the universal constraint set. A theme of the volume is comparing Selkirk's Match Theory with the older Align Theory of syntax-prosody mapping, finding that both are needed, at least in some languages.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Junko Ito is Research Professor of Linguistics and Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.

Nick Kalivoda is postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden.

Jennifer Bellik is postdoctoral researcher in Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.

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Verlag
Equinox Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1800502753
ISBN 13 
9781800502758
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
560
Herausgeber
Bellik Jennifer
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