On the boundaries of Irish prosodic words

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dc.contributor.authorWindsor, Joseph W
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-24T21:07:50Z
dc.date.available2016-06-24T21:07:50Z
dc.date.issued2011-09
dc.description.abstractThis study uses the facts of Irish lenition, gemination processes and stress placement constraints to refute the theory of the syntax-phonology interface proposed by Truckenbrodt (1999) where it is claimed that the only structure visible to phonology at the interface is that of phrases. I use these same facts in support of Match Theory (Selkirk 2009; to appear) which allows a direct 1:1 mapping between syntactic and phonological structure at the word, phrase and clausal levels. Further, I go on to propose strength conditions on the boundaries of prosodic words dependant on whether those words are maximal, or non-maximal recursive word structures. I conclude that while *STRUC constraints eliminate redundant word bracketing structure, it does not target recursive word bracketing provided that that bracket contain at least some segmental information. This fact will account for Geminate Inalterability (Ní Chosáin 1991; Green 2008) found in Irish coronal clusters as well as secondary stress placement present only in recursive word structure. These facts can only be handled by a theory that allows a direct mapping of all types of syntactic structures to prosodic structure and not just syntactic phrases to phonological phrases.en_US
dc.description.refereedYesen_US
dc.identifier.citationWindsor, J. W. (2011). On the boundaries of Irish prosodic words. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 27(Fall), 1-14.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/28982
dc.identifier.issn2371-2643
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/51470
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.publisher.departmentLinguisticsen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArtsen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.subjectLinguisticsen_US
dc.subjectPhonologyen_US
dc.subjectIrish languageen_US
dc.subjectSpeech Prosodyen_US
dc.subjectSyntaxen_US
dc.subjectConstraints (Linguistics)en_US
dc.titleOn the boundaries of Irish prosodic wordsen_US
dc.typejournal article
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