Information Structure and the Syntax-Phonology Interface

The Syntax - Phonology Interface *

The topic of the syntax-phonology interface is broad, encompassing different submodules of grammar and interactions of these. This chapter addresses one fundamental aspect of the syntax-phonology interface in detail: the relation between syntactic constituency and the prosodic constituent domains for sentence-level phonological and phonetic phenomena. Two further core aspects, which rely on an ...

Formal Approaches to The Interface of Syntax and Information Structure

• Introduction: What is information structure and basic notions • Historical development of information structure approaches (largely based on von Heusinger 1999, ch. 3) – The Beginnings of Information Structure – The Prague School – Halliday and the American structuralism – Information Packaging – Information Structure in Generative Grammar • The Semantics of Information Structure – Structured...

The Phonology-Syntax Interface in North Kyungsang Korean

Incremental Parsing in Korean: At Syntax-Phonology Interface

Syntax-prosody Interface for Romanian within Information Structure Theories

The following main ideas have been pointed out and put to work within our paper: (a) Information Structure (IS) theories (topic-focus, theme-rheme, background-contrast, informational and contrastive focus, focus projection rules, etc.) on text are shown to behave currently as a consistent linguistic tool that can stand behind a correct, language and contextual-depending, mapping of text into sp...