When higher modules talk to phonology, they talk to empty Nuclei

(1) The spine of the classical approach (SPE, Pros Phon): Indirect Reference a. since Selkirk (1981 [1978]), interface theory regarding the communication between phonology and the other modules of grammar is dominated by the central idea of Prosodic Phonology (PP): Indirect Reference.. b. That is, phonological processes make only indirect reference to morpho-syntactic information. The latter is thus transformed into the Prosodic Hierarchy (which lies inside the phonology), to which phonological rules make reference.

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