This paper reports a difference in English between the prosodic properties of contrastive FOCUS and presentational focus entities when they are immediately followed within the sentence by a presentational focus. In this context, the contrastive FOCUS shows not only a L+H* pitch accent, but also a following phonological phrase break, marked by both a Lphrase accent and temporal disjuncture. In t...

Introduction* Marantz (1995) concludes the description of the Minimalist Program by saying, "Syntax reduces to a simple description of how constituents drawn from the lexicon can be combined and how movement is possible. The computational system, this simple system of composition, is constrained by a small set of economy principles, which Chomsky claims enforce the general requirement, 'do the ...

Affrication (also known as Assibilation) is recognized one of the strongest and most reliable accent markers Laurentian French, yet its behavior in external sandhi has received little attention. It described literature variable, optional, even prohibited. In this article, we demonstrate that affrication between two words mandatory, prohibited, or optional depending on syntactic relationship inv...

This paper presents a lexical choice component for complex noun phrases. We rst explain why lexical choice for NPs deserves special attention within the standard pipeline architecture for a generator. The task of the lexical chooser for NPs is more complex than for clauses because the syntax of NPs is less understood than for clauses, and therefore, syntactic realization components, while they ...

What is the relat ionship between syntax, prosody and phonetics? This paper argues for a declarative constraint-based theory, in which each step in a derivation adds diverse constraints to a pool. Some of these describe well formed objects in the feature structure domain, in terms of both syntactic and prosodic features. Some characterise the relative prominence of constituents as a partial ord...

Inspired by the model-theoretic approach to phonology deployed by Kracht [25] and Potts and Pullum [32], I develop an extendable modal logic for the investigation of phonological theories operating on (richly annotated) string structures. In contrast to previous research in this vein [17, 31, 37], I ultimately strive to study the entire class of such theories rather than merely one particular i...

1 Abstract In this paper I shall propose an account of morphosyntactic phenomena like European Por-tuguese (hence: EP) cliticization in terms of interacting morphophonological and surface-syntactic constraints. In particular, I suggest that mor-phophonological constraints are partially under-speciied with respect to morpheme linearization, information that will be added monotonically by surface...