160188 PS Recent Developments on the Theory of Grammar (2010W)

The prosody of an utterance (phrasing, stress, pauses, intonation) is closely related to its syntactic structure (and, of course, is meaning). We will discuss various recent approaches to the mapping from syntax to prosody (or the other way around). As a part of that, we'll discuss more general questions about the nature of syntactic and prosodic representations, as well as the general architecture of grammatical theories (can prosody influence syntax etc?).