Metaphony and diphthongization in Southern Italy: reconstructive implications for sound change in early Romance

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Harmonic processes and metaphony in some Italian varieties 9
6. Metaphony and diphthongization in Southern Italy: reconstructive implications for sound change in early Romance 55
7. On the morphophonology of metaphonic alternations in Altamurano 89
8. Metaphony in the Ticino Canton and phonological features 127
9. Progressive metaphony in the Abruzzese dialect of Teramo 147
10. Metaphony and Raddoppiamento Fonosintattico in plural nouns in the dialect of Airola 179
11. On integrating different methodologies in phonological research: acoustic, articulatory, behavioral and neurophysiological evidence in the study of a metaphony system 195
12. Which syntactic information gets interpreted by phonosyntactic processes? Evidence from /u/ propagation in Southern Italian dialects 221
13. On the typology of metaphony/stress dependent harmony 259
14. Metaphonic chain shifts, vowel height and markedness 277
15. Positional prominence and consonantal interactions in metaphony and post-tonic harmony 301
16. Opaque interactions between vowel merger and metaphony 333
17. Abruzzese metaphony and the A eater 349
18. Index 369