Prosody Matters - Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Selkirk - Toni Borowsky

Prosody Matters - Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Selkirk - Toni Borowsky

12. Reconsidering the edge parameter

Prosody Matters - Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Selkirk - Toni Borowsky

Hisao Tokizaki
Sapporo University

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In this paper, I will derive the edge parameter from the head parameter in syntax and discuss the difference in phrasing between Shanghai and other Chinese dialects. In Section 12.2, I will briefly review the edge parameter theory of Selkirk (1986) and the prosodic differences between Xiamen and Shanghai. Section 12.3 illustrates the bare mapping from syntactic structure onto phonological representation (Tokizaki, 1999, 2008). Section 12.4 discusses how the differences between Chinese dialects can be explained without the edge parameter. Section 12.5 concludes the discussion.

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Tokizaki, Hisao. 12. Reconsidering the edge parameter. Prosody Matters - Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Selkirk. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 374 - 396 Feb 2012. ISBN 9781845536770. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=20160. Date accessed: 28 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.20160. Feb 2012

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