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1	Prosody by phase : evidence from focus intonation wh-scope correspondence in Japanese Ishihara, Shinichiro January 2004 (has links) Japanese <i>wh</i>-questions always exhibit focus intonation (FI). Furthermore, the domain of FI exhibits a correspondence to the <i>wh</i>-scope. I propose that this phonology-semantics correspondence is a result of the cyclic computation of FI, which is explained under the notion of <i>Multiple Spell-Out</i> in the recent Minimalist framework. The proposed analysis makes two predictions: (1) embedding of an FI into another is possible; (2) (overt) movement of a <i>wh</i>-phrase to a phase edge position causes a mismatch between FI and <i>wh</i>-scope. Both predictions are tested experimentally, and shown to be borne out. Japanese wh-question prosody focus intonation wh-scope cyclicity phase Multiple Spell-Out Language, Linguistics