Phrase-level and word-level syllables: Resyllabification and prosodization of clitics
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Prosodic Theory and, in particular, the Strict Layer Hypothesis (SLH), maintain that each level of the prosodic hierarchy is fully contained within the level dominating it (Nespor and Vogel 1986; Selkirk 1995). However, in some languages a syllable is not necessarily contained within a single Prosodic Word (PW). In this paper, we investigate two such cases of violation of the SLH, and offer a new analysis of the facts. First, we examine data involving the prosodization of Romance “free” clitics, or clitics that are incorporated into prosodic structure at the level of the Phonological Phrase (PP) (Selkirk 1995). The northern Italian dialect of Donceto has free subject clitic pronouns. As we can see in (1) within Donceto clitic + host units, the syllable boundaries are clear: there is a single syllable in each case.
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