Unaccentedness and the formation of prosodic structure in Leikeitio Basque
Gorka Elordieta, Elisabeth Selkirk
March 2021 

In Lekeitio Basque, radical mismatches between the morphosyntactic phrase structure of a sentence and the phonological/prosodic phrase structure of the phonological output representation appear when one or more of the words of a sentence display(s) unaccentedness, i.e., lack(s) lexical accent. Evidence of these constituency mismatches is provided by the distribution of predictable phrasal edge tones and prosodic-structure-sensitive patterns of pitch downstep and upstep. A purely phonological, optimality theoretic analysis of the mismatches is given. This phonological analysis relies on assuming that morphosyntactic constituent structure is spelled out as prosodic constituent structure in the input representation of the phonology module and that a language-particular ranking of purely phonological constituency faithfulness and markedness constraints relates the constituency of the phonological input to the constituency of the phonological output representation.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/005798 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	Prosody and Prosodic Interfaces, ed. by Kubozono, Ito & Mester. Oxford University Press
keywords:	syntax-phonology constituency mismatches, unaccentedness, predictable edge tones, pitch upstep patterns, prosodic constituency markedness, prosodic constituency faithfulness, lekeitio basque, syntax, phonology
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