Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory - Theory and Analyses - Jennifer Bellik

Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory - Theory and Analyses - Jennifer Bellik

10. Size Effects in Prosody: Branch-Counting, Leaf-Counting, and Uniformity

Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory - Theory and Analyses - Jennifer Bellik

Jennifer Bellik [+-]
University of California, Santa Cruz
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Jennifer Bellik is postdoctoral researcher in Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
Nicholas Van Handel [+-]
PhD student, University of California, Santa Cruz
Nicholas Van Handel is a graduate research assistant for the SPOT project and a Ph.D. student, Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz.

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Constraints on Binarity are commonly used to capture size effects: the tendency for longer strings to be parsed into more prosodic constituents. In some implementations, binarity is assessed locally by counting immediate children (= branch-counting); in others, binarity is assessed globally by counting all descendants of some category (= leaf-counting). Branch-counting binarity motivates size-driven prosodic recursion, and operates as a special case of Match(XP). In contrast, leaf-counting binarity motivates size-driven category promotion, and conflicts with Match(XP), leading to larger typology sizes. A constraint on Uniformity is shown to be able to derive size-driven mismatches as well.

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Bellik, Jennifer; Van Handel, Nicholas. 10. Size Effects in Prosody: Branch-Counting, Leaf-Counting, and Uniformity. Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory - Theory and Analyses. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 391-441 Jun 2023. ISBN 9781800502758. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=41010. Date accessed: 29 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.41010. Jun 2023

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