Their prosodic deficiency means that weak pronouns need to be prosodically licensed.
Silvia Kouwenberg 2007, 'The prosody-syntax interface and the status of pronouns in Papiamentu', Journal of Portuguese Linguisticshttp://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/articles/150. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Interestingly, most of the scrambled constituents were prosodically-marked by pitch-peaks as contrastive foci.
Ludovico Franco, Elisa Zampieri, Francesca Meneghello 2013, 'A-Bar Scrambling in Repetition in a Case of Mixed Transcortical Aphasia: Hints forthe Psychological Reality of the Syntax/Pragmatic Interface', Discourshttp://discours.revues.org/8762. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The members of the weak series are prosodically and distributionally deficient, in contrast with those of the strong series.
Silvia Kouwenberg 2007, 'The prosody-syntax interface and the status of pronouns in Papiamentu', Journal of Portuguese Linguisticshttp://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/articles/150. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)