Syntax-Phonology Interface

Numerous phonological patterns have syntactically conditioned environments. The syntactic conditions are similar across languages, involving information about syntactic constituency (sisterhood, constituent edges, bar level) but not about other aspects of syntax, e.g., part of speech or finiteness. The dominant paradigm for analyzing syntactically conditioned phonology is through the use of prosodic structure, e.g., phonological words and phonological phrases, which is derived via mapping principles from syntactic structure. Phonological patterns apply within prosodic constituents and therefore only indirectly reference syntax.