Is Word-Level Recursion Actually Recursion?

There is a longstanding debate in the literature about if, and where, recursion occurs prosodic structure. While there are clear cases of genuine at phrase level above, very few convincing word-level recursion. Most are—by definition—not recursive instead best analyzed as different constituents (e.g., Composite Group, Prosodic Word etc.). We show that two can easily be reanalyzed without if phonology prosody evaluated cyclically syntactic phase boundaries. Our analysis combines phase-based spell-out morpheme-specific subcategorization frames Cophonologies by Phase with Tri-P Mapping structure building. apparent due to cyclic spell-out, non-isomorphisms between requirements.