@article{discovery1463443,
            year = {2015},
           title = {A flexible approach to the syntax-phonology mapping of intonational phrases},
           month = {May},
       publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
           pages = {79--110},
         journal = {Phonology},
          volume = {32},
          editor = {E Selkirk and S Lee},
          number = {1},
            note = {{\copyright} Cambridge University Press 2015},
          author = {Hamlaoui, F and Szendroi, K},
            issn = {1469-8188},
             url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0952675715000056},
        abstract = {This paper addresses 'a central question for [...] any theory of the syntactic- prosodic constituency relation' (Selkirk, 2011, 17): how to best characterize the notion of 'clause' in ALIGN/MATCH constraints related to the syntax-prosody mapping of the intona- tional phrase. We propose that the notion of 'clause' should be determined in each construc- tion by making reference to the highest projection in the root clause (see Downing, 1970), to which the verbal material (i.e. the verb itself, the inflection, an auxiliary, a question particle) is overtly moved or inserted, together with the material in its specifier. In other words, we argue that no particular functional head plays a role in the theory of intonational phrasing. In support of this flexibility in syntax-prosody mapping, we discuss data from the Bantu language, B{\`a}s{\`a}{\'a}, and the Finno-Ugric language, Hungarian. We show that a left-peripheral constituent may be prosodically outside the core intonational phrase even though its syn- tactic position is relatively low, so long as the verb is even lower, and that conversely, a constituent may be phrased inside the core intonational phrase even if it is in a syntactically high position, so long as the verb also moves high.}
}