The Prosody of Quantifier Stranding under Wh-Movement in West Ulster English

This is a companion to the paper `Quantifier Float and WH-Movement in an Irish English' (Linguistic Inquiry 31.1). It deals with certain prosodic properties of the species of Quantifier Float that that paper is centrally concerned with. This material was omitted from the version of the paper which was published in Linguistic Inquiry for reasons of space and on the advice of reviewers. It will not be published in any other form than this.

Its purpose is to try to understand the special prosodic properties of Quantifier Float under WH-Movement and in Quantifier Float of the more familiar kind, to provide arguments for when deviance of a given example should be attributed to prosodic factors and when deviance should be attributed to syntactic factors.


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