Some optimality principles of sentence pronunciation

Abstract

This is a compilation of handouts from 5 classes, Fall 1994, MIT, in which the proposal is advanced that the output of syntax feeds a system that determines how syntactic units are pronounced -- for example, optional and obligatory patterns of deletion, in-situ vs. filler-gap vs. filler-resumptive pronoun pronunciations of members of non-singleton chains. This system has a crucially phonological/optimality character. The proposal is thus intended to supplant the strong/weak feature (S-structure/LF) dichotomy of most recent syntax that accepts the arguments for covert movement. Topics include relative clauses in English, French and Mod.Hebrew, that-trace effects and V-to-I movement patterns in English of various periods as well as French.

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