Abstract
Abstract This article puts forth a proposal for the relation between syntax, prosody, and information structure that accounts for the variability observed in the placement of nuclear stress in different syntactic structures in Germanic and the lack of such variability in Romance. It makes use of a parametrized Nuclear Stress Rule that applies to metrically interpreted syntactic structures, where the (in)visibility of functional categories (in particular Tense) plays a major role.
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