The study of the interface between syntax and phonology is a new area in modern linguistics. The term phonology in this interdisciplinary study specifically refers to prosody; it is therefore sometimes called prosodic syntax, i.e., the study of how syntax is constrained by prosody.

Prosody mainly concerns suprasegmental phenomena such as mora/syllable weight or length, stress, intonation, rhythm, etc. in natural speech (Liberman 1975).…