Approaches to metaphony in the languages of Italy

Approaches to metaphony in the languages of Italy / edited by Francesc Torres-Tamarit, Kathrin Linke and Marc van Oostendorp.

This volume presents current work on a topic in Romance linguistics that still informs linguistic theory to this day: metaphony in the languages of Italy. Papers discuss fundamental research topics such as phonological opacity in the light of chain shifts, post-tonic harmony and consonant transparen...

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Other Authors: Torres-Tamarit, Francesc, 1984- (Editor), Linke, Kathrin, 1978- (Editor), Oostendorp, Marc van, 1967- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2016]
Series:Phonology and phonetics ; 20.
Subjects:
Italian language > Phonology.
Italian language > Morphology.
Italian language > Vowels.
Italian language > Dialects.
Italian language > Variation.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Italian.
Italian language > Dialects
Italian language > Morphology
Italian language > Phonology
Italian language > Variation
Italian language > Vowels
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of contributors
  • Introduction
  • Harmonic processes and metaphony in some Italian varieties
  • Metaphony and diphthongization in Southern Italy: reconstructive implications for sound change in early Romance
  • On the morphophonology of metaphonic alternations in Altamurano
  • Metaphony in the Ticino Canton and phonological features
  • Progressive metaphony in the Abruzzese dialect of Teramo
  • Metaphony and Raddoppiamento Fonosintattico in plural nouns in the dialect of Airola
  • On integrating different methodologies in phonological research: acoustic, articulatory, behavioral and neurophysiological evidence in the study of a metaphony system
  • Which syntactic information gets interpreted by phonosyntactic processes? Evidence from /u/ propagation in Southern Italian dialects
  • On the typology of metaphony/stress dependent harmony
  • Metaphonic chain shifts, vowel height and markedness
  • Positional prominence and consonantal interactions in metaphony and post-tonic harmony
  • Opaque interactions between vowel merger and metaphony
  • Abruzzese metaphony and the A eater
  • Index.

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