Phonological Theory and the Dialects of Italy

Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
Copyright page......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 6
Table of contents......Page 8
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 10
1. The Minor Languages of Italy......Page 12
2. Italian Dialectology......Page 14
3. Summary of Articles......Page 16
4. Conclusion......Page 20
REFERENCES......Page 21
0. Introduction......Page 24
1. The data......Page 25
2. Approaches to Friulian vowel length......Page 28
3. The Relationship Between Vowel Lengthening and Voicing in Synchronic Friulian: Empirical Evidence......Page 34
4. Acoustic Analysis of Long Vowel + Obstruent Sequences in Friulian......Page 39
REFERENCES......Page 54
0. Introduction......Page 56
1. The Basic Data and the Context for RS......Page 57
2. The Prosodic Status of RS Triggers: Fnc/ Lex......Page 60
3. The Phonology of RS......Page 63
4. Conclusion......Page 67
REFERENCES......Page 68
0. Introduction......Page 70
1. The Dialect of Altamura......Page 72
2. Theoretical Background of Analysis......Page 82
3. Fronting in the Dialect of Altamura......Page 87
5. Conclusion......Page 95
REFERENCES......Page 96
0. Introduction......Page 100
1. Coratino Vowel System......Page 104
2. Vowel Reduction and Retention......Page 106
3. OCP and Tier Scanning......Page 110
4. Labial Vowels in the Stem......Page 114
5. Stem and Suffix......Page 117
6. Low Vowel Reduction......Page 118
7. Conclusion......Page 119
REFERENCES......Page 120
0. Introduction......Page 122
1. Evidence of Overlength in Romance Languages......Page 124
2. Problems and Issues in Identifying Overlength and Three Degrees of Length in Italy......Page 136
3. Overlength and Trimoraicity in Bolognese: A Special Case......Page 137
4. Conclusion......Page 141
REFERENCES......Page 142
0. Introduction......Page 148
1. Stress Stability in Standard Italian......Page 151
2. (Allegedly) PW-Sensittve Rules in Standard Italian......Page 153
3. PW-Sensitive Rules in Some Romance Dialects of Italy......Page 164
4. Conclusion......Page 175
REFERENCES......Page 176
0. Introduction......Page 180
1. The Nature of Dissimilation......Page 181
2. The Absence of **[l- l-] in Italo-Romance Clitic Sequences......Page 184
3. Typology of Italo-Romance Clitic Dissimilations......Page 185
4. Other 'Morphological' Dissimilations in Italo-Romance......Page 194
5. The Conditioning of Clitic Dissimilation......Page 195
REFERENCES......Page 198
1. Oxytone Forms of the Infinitive......Page 202
2. Method of Investigation......Page 204
3. Truncated Infinitives and 'Rafforzamento Fonosintattico'......Page 205
4. Restructuring......Page 207
5. RF is Prosodically Constrained......Page 209
6. Articles Beginning with /l-/......Page 210
7. Clitics......Page 211
8. Degenerate Feet......Page 212
9. Catalexis......Page 214
10. Iambic Feet?......Page 215
REFERENCES......Page 218
0. Introduction......Page 222
1. Preliminaries......Page 223
2. Structural Analyses......Page 234
3. The OT Perspective......Page 240
4. Conclusion......Page 245
REFERENCES......Page 246
0. Introduction......Page 249
1. Background Phonological Information......Page 251
2. Empirical Evidence of RS in Faetar......Page 255
3. The Problem......Page 259
4. Conclusion......Page 262
REFERENCES......Page 264
0. Introduction......Page 266
1. Vowel Length Distribution in Milanese......Page 267
2. Previous Analyses of Milanese Vowel Lengthening: The Role of Weightand Sonority......Page 273
3. Vowel Lengthening in Milanese: An Optimality Approach......Page 276
4. Conclusion......Page 280
REFERENCES......Page 281
0. Introduction......Page 284
1. Phonological Processes and the Uneven Trochee......Page 286
2. Epenthesis and the Metrical Template......Page 291
3. Conclusions......Page 296
REFERENCES......Page 297
INDEX OF NAMES......Page 300
INDEX OF TERMS & CONCEPTS......Page 308