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Jung, Yeun-Jin. 2012. On the Nature of Wh-Prosody and Its Syntactic Dependency. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 37-2, 417-444. In the standard minimalist tradition, the overt/covert distinction for wh-movement has been accounted for in terms of formal features such as “strong” or “weak” wh-features, or more recently the presence or absence of an EPP feature in C. Richards (2010), on the other hand, has recently proposed from quite an opposite direction that the syntactic parameter for wh-movement has directly to do with the wh-specific phonological effects, that is, prosodic effects feed syntactic wh-movement. In this paper I will provide evidence that for wh-interpretation, syntax feeds phonology, rather than vice versa, hence supporting the standard feature-based account of wh-movement. In so doing, it will be also argued that some agreement-related syntactic features may directly influence phonology, hence opening up the possibility of a direct reference approach to the syntax-phonology interface. (Dongeui University)