On Clause and Intonational Phrase in Japanese:!e Syntactic Grounding of Prosodic Constituent Structure E S

seq and Hirotani (2003) et seq on matrix and embedded wh-questions, which suggests that syntactic clauses correspond to a domain for certain of the phono-logical and phonetic phenomena that define the intonational patterns of Japa-nese sentences. +e finding that there is a clause-grounded intonational phrase domain of phonological representation in Japanese is predicted by a universal theory of the prosodic hierarchy as grounded in a universal theory of the syntax-phonology interface (Selkirk 2005). +is paper lays out a new universal Match theory of the syntax-prosodic constituency interface, according to which desig-nated syntactic constituent types are called on to match up with corresponding prosodic constituent types. Match theory may be construed as a component of the theory of Spell-Out in minimalist phase theory (Chomsky 2001). +e data also shows that recursive intonational phrase structure is produced when the universal Match Clause constraint is satisfied on nested clausal domains. +is is expected if indeed the availability of recursive prosodic structure derives from the organization of syntactic structure, through the agency of constraint