Remarks on the Economy of Pronunciation

Abstract

Although it is technically independent of it, the idea that syntactic movement is composed of two steps, a copying operation followed by a deletion operation (the C&D-theory of movement) –as illustrated in (1)became again popular with the rise of the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1993). In one of the straightforward extensions of the C&D-approach, at least certain instances of so-called covert movement arise from the overt copying of a full phrase before SPELLOUT, followed by the deletion of the higher rather than the lower copy an assumption that implies that spellout conventions regulate whether the target or the source position of the copying operation is realized phonetically (see, e.g., Bobaljik 1995, Groat & O'Neill 1996, Pesetsky 1997, 1998a, Roberts 1997 (for head movement), Sabel 1998, among others) – as illustrated in (2) for Chinese.

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