What is the role of prosody in the generation of sentence structure?A standard notion holds that prosody results from mapping a hierarchical syntactic structure onto a linear sequence of words. A radically different view conceives of certain intonational features as integral components of the syntactic structure. Yet another conception maintains that prosody and syntax are parallel systems that mutually constrain each other to yield surface sentential form.The different viewpoints reflect the various functions prosody may have: On the one hand, prosody is a signal to syntax, marking e.g. constituent boundaries. On the other hand, prosodic or intonational features convey meaning; the concept "intonational morpheme" (as e.g. an exponent of information structural notions like topic or focus) puts prosody and intonation squarely into the syntactic representation. The proposals collected in this book tackle the intricate relationship of syntax and prosody in the encoding of sentences. The contributions build their cases on the basis of solid empirical evidence, adducing data from experiments or from the careful analysis of natural speech. The volume thus represents a state of the art survey of research on the syntax-phonology interface.

• Contents
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Syntax affecting prosody
• 3 Prosody affecting syntax
• 4 Outline of this book
• 5 Concluding remarks
• References
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Procedure
• 3 Both mechanical and meaningful stress matter
• 4 Part of speech effects
• 5 Summary
• Appendix A: Lexical stress annotation
• Appendix B
• Data sources
• References
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The genitive/dative ambiguity
• 3 Experiment
• 4 The syntax-prosody interface
• and
• 5 At the interface:
• 6 Conclusion
• References
• Appendix
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Basic Intonational Characteristics of Urdu/Hindi
• 3 Polar Questions
• 4 Wh-constituent questions
• 5 Ambiguity resolution via prosodic information
• 6 The syntax–prosody interface
• 7 Conclusion
• References
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Experiment 1
• 3 Experiment 2
• 4 Comparative Corpus construction, results, and analysis
• 5 Conclusions
• References
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Data set: object fronting in German
• 3 Focus mapping as a high-level constraint
• 4 Givenness/newness mapping as low-level constraints
• 5 Architectureofgrammar
• 6 Conclusion
• References
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The proposal: Modelling Common Ground management
• 3 Application: Decomposing SPPs
• 4 Expansion: Decomposing SFI
• 5 Evidence for the syntactic integration of Common Ground modifiers
• 6 Conclusion
• References
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Background
• 3 Experiment
• 4 Discussion
• 5 Conclusions
• References
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The head adjacency condition and its problems
• 3 Prosodic constraint on prenominal modification
• 4 Conclusion
• References
• 1 Information structural heads do not trigger scrambling movements
• 2 On scrambling foci: Theoretical assumptions and empirical findings
• 3 Discussion of empirical results and their consequences for cartography
• 4 An alternative approach: relational, interface-oriented architectures
• 5 Conclusion
• References
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Some problems with head movement
• 3 A phonological approach
• 4 Verbal complexes
• 5 Conclusions
• References
• Index