The Syntax-Prosody Interface in East Asian Languages

A special issue of Languages (ISSN 2226-471X).

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Dear Colleagues,

The journal Languages is accepting submissions for a Special Issue regarding the syntax–prosody interface with a particular focus on East Asian languages. We aim to highlight both cutting-edge work regarding a current issue in  linguistics and the contribution of research on often-marginalized languages to the shaping of general linguistic theory. We welcome submissions from any discipline within the broader ambit of linguistics, i.e., those that primarily situate themselves within syntax, semantics, pragmatics, morphology, phonology, and phonetics, as well as interdisciplinary contributions from areas such as psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, computational linguistics, and language processing which clearly highlight theoretical consequences of the formal study of East Asian languages. We would like to emphasize that, alongside more theoretically oriented work, empirical contributions are also encouraged.

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  • Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 February 2024
  • Notification of Abstract Acceptance: 15 March 2024
  • Full Manuscript Deadline: 15 August 2024

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Article
Scope and Prosody in Multiple Wh-Questions
by So-Young Lee
Languages 2024, 9(7), 226; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9070226 - 21 Jun 2024
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The prosodic marking of the wh-scope has been a good testing ground to shed light on syntax-prosody mapping. Many accounts have been proposed based on various theoretical models, including the E-feature agreement system, the Multiple Spell-Out Model, Contiguity Theory, and the Wrap-XP [...] Read more.
The prosodic marking of the wh-scope has been a good testing ground to shed light on syntax-prosody mapping. Many accounts have been proposed based on various theoretical models, including the E-feature agreement system, the Multiple Spell-Out Model, Contiguity Theory, and the Wrap-XP Model. However, most previous studies focused on the constructions with a single wh-phrase, and few studies paid attention to multiple wh-questions. This paper presents novel data from production experiments to show the prosodic patterns of multiple wh-questions in Korean, for which none of the previous accounts makes correct predictions. This study proposes a new alignment constraint considering the scope relations between wh-words. The necessity of such a constraint suggests that the prosodic structures for wh-scope interpretations are not the direct outcome of syntax and phonology but the aggregation of syntax, phonology, and semantics. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Syntax-Prosody Interface in East Asian Languages)
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