Recursive Prosody and the Prosodic Form of Compounds

This paper investigates the role recursive structures play in prosody. In current understanding, phonological phrasing is computed by a general syntax–prosody mapping algorithm. Here, we are interested structure that arises response to morphosyntactic needs be mapped. We investigate types of found prosody, specifically: For prosodic category κ, besides adjunctive type recursion κ[κ x], κ[x κ], there also coordinative κ]? Focusing on forms compounds two typologically rather different languages, Danish and Japanese, encounter three word structures: ω[ω ω], left-adjunctive ω[f right-adjunctive f] strictly layered compound f]. addition, kinds φ-compounds one with non-recursive (strictly layered) φ[ω mono-phrasal consisting words, φ[φ φ], bi-phrasal compound. A cross-linguistically rare post-syntactic has this biphrasal structure, fact explained its sentential origin.