1 Fragment answers to questions: a case of inaudible syntax Lyn Frazier a , Jason Merchant b , Thomas Weskott c , and Charles Clifton, Jr. a a University of Massachusetts Amherst b University of Chicago c University of Potsdam address correspondence to: Lyn Frazier Department of Linguistics University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 USA lyn@linguist.umass.edu word count: 2998 (exclusive of tables and appendices)