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FNQ-constructions in Korean and Japanese exhibit an interesting correlation between prosodic phrasing and semantic processing, with correspondingly different syntactic judgments. I propose that this prosodic-semantics correspondence is a result of mapping of syntax onto prosody within a Minimalist framework of Chomsky (2000, 2001, 2008);that is, syntactic operations are computed cyclically and transferred to LF multiple times for their interpretations. This analysis nicely captures major difficulties that all former accounts suffered from in the area of FNQ-constructions, by simply paying a close attention to how the "prosodic phrases" are created, where the "phases" are formed and what counts as a Spell-Out domain.