Testing MatchClause: The prosody of embedded clauses in Japanese

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This study reports results of a phonetic production experiment which tests one of the implications of Match Theory (MT), namely, the categorically distinctive prosodic marking of syntactic phrase and clause boundaries. MT assumes that a syntactic clause tends to be mapped onto prosody as an intonational phrase (ι) and a syntactic phrase as a phonological phrase (φ). These syntax--prosody correspondences are derived by OT constraints MatchClause and MatchPhrase, respectively. The experiment is designed to test whether sentence-medial embedded clauses are mapped to ι's. The results show no indication of distinctive difference between prosodic boundaries at phrase edges and those at clause edges. Based on the results, several implications to the understanding of Japanese intonation and the theory of syntax--prosody interface will be discussed.
Period2020 Sept 72020 Sept 20
Event titleThe 28th Japanese//Korean Linguistics Conference
Event typeConference
Conference number28
LocationPreston, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational