ABSTRACT
This chapter employs Government Phonology (GP) to address the interface between phonology and morpho-syntax, and between phonology and phonetics. Grammar is made of a number of distinct computational systems, each of which operates over a proprietary vocabulary that is distinct from the ones used by other systems. Taking these vocabulary items that are stored in long-term memory as an input, computational systems build structure following hard-wired instructions in online processing. There are two ways for morpho-syntax to influence phonology: derivationally and representationally. Kaye follows the perception-oriented logic of Trubetzkoy's Grenzsignale. The idea is that phonology helps the listener to identify morphemes in the unstructured linear signal: this signal contains information, parsing cues, which flag morpheme boundaries. The chapter focuses on the Phase Impenetrability Condition (PIC) as entertained in current syntactic phase theory. It then examines how work in Distributed Morphology (DM) of Jean Lowenstamm and his students uses Element Theory in the decomposition of morphological exponence.
