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Intonational phrasing: the case for recursive prosodic structure

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D. Robert Ladd
D. Robert Ladd*
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University of Edinburgh
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The past decade has seen a good deal of research on the relation between phonology and syntax, and on the nature of the phonological structures – both intonational and metrical – on to which syntactic structure must be mapped (e.g. Liberman & Prince 1977; Pierrehumbert 1980; Selkirk 1984; Kaisse 1985; Nespor & Vogel 1986). While some of this work breaks genuinely new ground, in at least one respect it relies on a theoretical legacy from work going back at least half a century: the INTONATIONAL PHRASE (IP). The goal of this paper is to examine the properties of the IP as a theoretical construct and to propose a substantially modified approach to intonational phrasing.

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Phonology , Volume 3 , May 1986 , pp. 311 - 340
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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In developing the ideas presented here I have profited from discussions with Ronnie Cann, Heinz Giegerich, Haruo Kubozono and Mary Tait, and from the comments of Mary Beckman, Steve Isard, and an anonymous Phonology Yearbook referee on an earlier version of the paper. Responsibility for the content of the paper is mine alone.

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