Since the advance of the Minimalist Program, the prosody of wh-questions has drawn much attention from both syntacticians and phonologists as they bear special significance for the illumination of the syntax-phonology interface. The prosodic properties of wh-questions in Busan Korean are particularly interesting in that they reflect syntactic information quite faithfully but with differentiating devices of intonation contour. Based on the experimental investigation of the correlation of wh-scope and prosody in Busan Korean, I will show what kind of syntactic information has direct relevance for the prosodic system, how it affects parametric differences among dialects, and how the nature of the correlation of wh-scope and prosody can be captured in the current minimalist theory.
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