An empirical and theoretical investigation into computationalefficiency and prosodic hierarchy in the syntax-phonology mapping

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On the assumption that syntactic derivation is sent to thephonological component in a cyclic manner, I argued that the mapping from syntax tophonology is constrained by an efficiency condition that prohibits modification ofphonological domains in the course of the mapping. I showed that apparent restructuringcases can be recast in terms of the purely prosodic redefinition of prosodic domains.Moreover, I suggested that the prosodic hierarchy formation is a derivational process thatis also constrained by an efficiency condition.