Full Description
Optimality Theory has become the dominant approach to studying phonology, including analyses of the mapping from syntactic structure to prosodic structure. However, when syntactic and prosodic structures are represented as trees, it is difficult, if not impossible, to systematically generate by hand all the possible prosodic parses that must be considered in an Optimality Theory investigation for any given syntactic input. Consequently, most existing syntax-prosody analyses are in this way incomplete, compromising their validity.
This volume presents a series of complete analyses of the syntax-prosody interface, thanks to their use of the Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory (SPOT) application. This JavaScript application, developed by the editors of this volume, automates candidate generation and constraint evaluation, making a rigorous Optimality Theory analysis of syntax-prosody possible. SPOT allows the user to test the typological predictions of the numerous proposed constraints on prosodic markedness and syntax-prosody mapping, so that researchers can make progress toward determining which formulations of the constraints should actually be part of the universal constraint set. A theme of the volume is comparing Selkirk's Match Theory with the older Align Theory of syntax-prosody mapping, finding that both are needed, at least in some languages.
Contents
1. Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory
Jennifer Bellik, Junko Ito, Nick Kalivoda, and Armin Mester
Part I: Gen Settings
2. Counting Tree Parses
Edward Shingler (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Jennifer Bellik
3. Branching Sensitivity, Prosodic Recursion, and Mapping Constraints
Max Tarlov (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Part II: Match Theory
4. Overtly Headed XPs and Irish Syntax-Prosody Mapping
Nick Kalivoda
5. Constraining Subcategory-Sensitive Match Constraints
Nicholas Van Handel, Dan Brodkin, and Benjamin Eischens (all at University of California, Santa Cruz)
6. Visibility Settings for Match Theory
Nicholas Van Handel
Part III: Align Theory
7. Interactions of Matching, Alignment, and Binarity in Japanese and Beyond
Nick Kalivoda
8. Clitic Movement in Chamorro
Richard Bibbs (University of California, Santa Cruz)
9. Tone Sandhi in Xiamen Chinese
Yaqing Cao (University of California, Santa Cruz), Richard Bibbs, and Jennifer Bellik
Part IV: Prosodic Well-Formedness Constraints
10. Size Effects in Prosody: Branch-Counting, Leaf-Counting, and Uniformity
Jennifer Bellik and Nicholas Van Handel
11. Stringency Hierarchies in Prosodic Sisterhood:
Jennifer Bellik
Tutorial
12. How to Use SPOT
Jennifer Bellik and Nick Kalivoda
