Czech Pronominal Clitics on the Syntax-Phonology Interface : an Experimental Study
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
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| Description | In this paper, we explore the syntax-phonology interface, focusing on pronominal clitics (PCL) in Czech. Syntactically, PCL are classified as Wakernagel’s clitics. Phonologically, they are enclitics. Typically, these two aspects of clitichood are studied independently, but our aim is to investigate their interaction, specifically whether the degree of phonological integration (enclisis) is influenced by the syntactic function of the pre-clitic constituent. We hypothesize a lower degree of enclisis with non-verbal phrases (N, Adv) compared to verbal ones. To test this hypothesis, we analyzed two phonological phenomena whose presence or absence indicates a prosodic boundary in Czech: regressive voicing assimilation (VA), and final obstruent devoicing (OD). For our experiments, we used Czech PCL ho (‘he/it.ACC’). |
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