Raddoppiamento Sintattico in Italian

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Absolute Initial Position
Author_Doris Angel Borrelli
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Central Dialects
Coda Consonant
Compensatory Lengthening
consonant gemination
Consonant Initial Word
Consonant Length
Consonantal Strength
Constraint Ranking
CV Tier
dialect variation
Embedding Languages
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Faithfulness Constraints
Gorgia Toscana
historical linguistics
Italian phonology
lenition processes
Lexical Triggers
Moraic Theory
Northern Dialects
Penultimate Stress
phonological doubling in Italian dialects
Phonological Phrase
Plural Definite Article
prosodic analysis
Southern Dialects
Standard Italian
Stress Clash
Stress Retraction
Stressed Syllables
Syllable Contact
Vowel Length

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415942072
  • Weight: 420g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Jun 2002
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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First Published in 2002. The Italian phenomenon known as raddoppiamento sintattico, or sometimes raddoppiamento fonosintattico, has received a vast amount of attention. Long recognized in Italian grammar books, the process consists of the gemination of a word-initial consonant in certain environments. The word raddoppiamento means “doubling,” and it is deemed “syntactic” or “phonosyntactic” because the process spans word boundaries. This offers a synchronic and diachronic cross-dialectical study of this phenomenon.