Bi-directionality at the PF-Interface: Explaining Adjunction Stress Patterns in West Germanic

Theories regarding the connection between prosodic stress assignment and phrasal hierarchy abound in modern linguistic studies. The counter-cyclic behavior of adjunction structures (Late Adjunction Hypothesis - Lebeaux 1988) poses a problem for most accounts of prosodic mapping parasitically acting upon syntactic-generated structures. Feng's bi-directional model of prosody-syntax interaction (2003b) accounts for the intricate relationship between prosodic stress assignment and late adjunction structure in West Germanic in a parsimonious fashion unachieved by recent amendments to the Nuclear St... Mehr ...