Approaches to Metaphony in the Languages of Italy.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (382 pages)
- Phonology and Phonetics [PP] Series ; v.20 .
- Phonology and Phonetics [PP] Series .
Intro -- 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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Italian language-Phonology. Italian language-Morphology. Italian language-Vowels. Italian language-Dialects. Italian language-Variation.