Introduction

Chapter 1, “Introduction,” offers a brief overview of the book. In the study of generative grammar, syntax-phonology mapping defines prosodic domains, such as prosodic word, phonological phrase, and intonational phrase, by relating some syntactic notions to certain prosodic categories. This book first chronologically reviews some important theories of syntax-phonology relations and prosodic domains. It then critically discusses Multiple Spell-Out approaches to phonological phrasing in the context of the Minimalist Program for linguistic theory and points out its theoretical shortcomings. Crystallization of the notion of externalization leads to a new perspective of the grammatical architecture, in which primes for the linearization procedures correspond to prosodic domains.