Phonological Theory and the Dialects of Italy

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Table of contents vii
4. List of Contributors ix
5. Phonological Theory and the Dialects of Italy 1
6. The Relationship Between Vowel Length and Consonantal Voicing in Friulian 13
7. Consonant Gemination in Neapolitan 45
8. The Feature [Advanced Tongue Root] and Vowel Fronting in Romance 59
9. Vowel Alternation, Vowel/Consonant Assimilation and OCP Effects in a Barese Dialect 89
10. How Many Moras? Overlength and Maximal Moraicity in Italy 111
11. Stress Stability Under Cliticization and the Prosodic Status of Romance Clitics 137
12. Phonological Dissimilation and Clitic Morphology in Italo-Romance 169
13. Oxytone Infinitives in the Dialect of Pisa 191
14. Sonority and Derived Clusters in Raeto-Romance and Gallo-Italic 211
15. Stress and Schwa in Faetar 238
16. Vowel Lengthening in Milanese 255
17. Uneven or Moraic Trochees? Evidence from Emilian and Romagnol Dialects 273
18. Index of Names 289
19. Index of Terms & Concepts 297