THE SIZE RESTRICTION IN PHONOLOGICAL PHRASING AND ITS SIMPLIFIED ALGORITHM

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper deals with the case where phonological phrases are formed by the interaction between the syntax-dependent process and the syntax-free process. In this case, the syntax-dependency in phonological phrasing is limited. This is the case in North Kyungsang (NK) Korean, where the phonological phrase refers to a domain for the assignment of a single high tone. There are two noticeable phenomena of phonological phrasing in NK Korean. One phenomenon is that there is no large phonological phrase consisting of more than three phonological words. The other is that compounds are entirely parallel to syntactic phrases in phonological phrasing. In this paper, it is shown that these two phenomena are a result of the interaction between the syntax-dependent process, which relies on branching structure, and the syntax-free process, whereby the size of phonological phrase is restricted. It is also proposed that this interaction is a phrase-level type of binary grouping process. This proposal is supported by both a “serial process”-based analysis and a “parallel process”-based analysis.