Prosody Matters - Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Selkirk - Toni Borowsky
9. Recursive prosodic phrasing in Japanese
Prosody Matters - Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Selkirk - Toni Borowsky
Junko Ito [+]
University of California, Santa Cruz
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Junko Ito is Research Professor of Linguistics and Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
Armin Mester [+]
University of California Santa Cruz
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Armin Mester is Research Professor of Linguistics and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
Description
This paper reopens the question of whether two distinct phrasal categories are truly necessary. Is a model of prosodic parsing possible that accounts for all the facts, both in Japanese and in other languages, with a single phonological phrase category? We will argue that such a conception is not only possible, but in fact necessary: multiple categories create problems.