In the phrasing of sentences without focus, a multi-word prosodic phrase (henceforth P-phrase) is preferred to a one-word P-phrase due to the constraint Phrase Minimality which prohibits a one-word P-phrase in North Kyungsang Korean (hereafter NK Korean) (N.-J. Kim 1997). However, a one-word (unary branching) P-phrase is forced to be formed due to the two inviolable constraints C-command and No Identical Maximal Projections (*IMPs). The aim of this paper is to demonstrate a role played by the constraint *IMPs in mapping syntactic phrases to prosodic phrases. The constraint *IMPs prohibits any identical maximal projections from being organized into the same P-phrase. For a role done by the constraint C-command, readers might refer to J.-S. Chung & N.-J. Kim (1997).
Abstract
1. Diagnostics of Phrasing
2. No Identical Maximal Projections and One-word P-phrases
3. Concluding Remarks
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