The study reported in this paper addresses the question of whether in American English fronting of the high back vowel /u/ in alveolar contexts is the result of physical and physiological constraints alone or it is under the speakers‟ deliberate control. If fronting of /u/ is a result of purely biomechanical constraints, then the production of the fronted variant does not require any specificat...

During the last years, several different analyses for partial verb phrase fronting have been proposed (Pollard, To appear; Nerbonne, 1994; Baker, 1994; Hinrichs and Nakazawa, 1994). The most promising account so far has been the one of Hinrichs and Nakazawa. This account, however, suffers from some drawbacks that will be discussed in section 4. I will present a rather simple account that uses t...

In this paper, I attempt to investigate two forms of verb phrase fronting constructions in Korean: 1) doubling VP and 2) do-support constructions. First, lay out common properties the show that Korean involve phrasal movement rather than being base-generated left-periphery. Furthermore, observe exhibit differences regarding types negation. argue these are caused by variation size targeted mater...

this study explores the nature of relatively free word order of verbs and their arguments in persian. based on the theory of phases and multiple spell-out which is an instantiation of minimalist program, we attempt to account for the restrictions on these word order variations. having a direct interaction with the syntax-phonology interface rather than a purely syntactic one, these restrictions...

This article documents the typological occurrence and interactions of two seemingly independent error patterns, namely Velar Fronting and Labial Harmony, in a cross-sectional investigation of the sound systems of 235 children with phonological delays (ages 3;0 to 7;9). The results revealed that the occurrence of Labial Harmony depends on the occurrence of Velar Fronting, and that, when these pr...

During the last years, several different analyses for partial verb phrase fronting have been proposed (Pollard, 1996; Nerbonne, 1994; Baker, 1994; Hinrichs and Nakazawa, 1994). The most promising account so far has been the one of Hinrichs and Nakazawa. This account, however, suffers from some drawbacks that will be discussed in section 4. I will present a rather simple account that uses the st...

Boškovi (1997a), (1997b), (in press a), (in press b) showed that Superiority effects (cf. Chomsky (1973)) may be taken as a diagnostic for wh-movement in multiple whquestions, that is, movement of a wh-phrase to Spec-CP, if one adopts the minimalist framework of Chomsky (1995b). In this framework, movement is subject to derivational economy, realized in conditions such as Minimal Link (MLC). In...