This paper provides prosodic evidence for a syntactic analysis of corrective “but” sentences, and argues that prosodic structure is not completely flat, but can replicate the dominance relations in the syntax. Corrective “but” sentences are “but”-coordination that requires negation in the first conjunct, such as (1) “Max misses not spinach but chard” and (2) “Max doesn’t miss spinach but chard”. There is debate about the syntactic analysis of (1): Toosarvandani (2013) analyzed it as DP-coordination (Max misses [not spinach] but [chard]), while Wu (2022) argued that it is structurally ambiguous between DP-, vP-and TP-coordination. In a production study, we showed with duration-based evidence that the prosodic boundary following the first conjunct (i.e. following “spinach”) is stronger than the boundary following a typical DP, supporting Wu’s analysis. (2) is uncontroversially analyzed as vP-coordination plus ellipsis in the literature, and this vP embeds a DP (Max does not [miss [spinach]] but chard). In the second part of the study, we took advantage of this recursive syntactic structure in (2) and asked whether it might lead to recursive prosodic structure. Duration-based evidence suggests that it does, as the prosodic boundary following “spinach” is stronger than the boundary following an unembedded DP.