ABSTRACT
Chapter 3, “Linearizations and prosodic domains,” critically reviews the theoretical investigations of phonological phrasing that have been spurred by the development of syntactic conceptions such as phases and Multiple Spell-Out within the framework of the Minimalist Program from the mid-1990s to the 2000s. These investigations are, however, too narrowly focused, as they account for only one layer of the prosodic hierarchy. It is then pointed out that a domain of Spell-Out serves as a prime for linearization, and that this prime is in turn interpreted as a phonological phrase in the phonological component. Generalizing this idea to other kinds of linearization, it is suggested that a prime for the linearization of syntactic terminals and that for the non-syntactic linearization also be interpreted as prosodic domains - the former being the prosodic word and the latter the intonational phrase. The Multiple Spell-Out theory of phonological phrasing is then subsumed under the more general theory of linearization.
