The phenomenon of grammaticalization-the historical process whereby new grammatical
material is created-has attracted a great deal of attention within linguistics. This is an attempt …

This book provides an overview of the phonology of Italian. It covers the different levels of
analysis from individual sounds up to the phrasal level. It focuses on the most widely …

Theories of phonological encoding are centred on the selection and activation of
phonological segments, and how these segments are organised in word and syllable …

This book makes accessible the major structural features of the dialects of Italy and
emphasises the importance of a detailed understanding of the dialects for issues in general …

We report on an articulatory study which uses an electromagnetic articulograph to
investigate word-initial consonant clusters in Italian. In particular, we investigate clusters …

First Published in 2002. The Italian phenomenon known as raddoppiamento sintattico, or
sometimes raddoppiamento fonosintattico, has received a vast amount of attention. Long …

This book evaluates the predictions of syllable-based analyses of Italian in three domains:
native speaker intuition of consonant cluster syllabification, definite article allomorphy, and …

In this dissertation I examine data from 16 languages with geminates and compare leading
models of geminates and syllable weight to determine the most cross-linguistically predictive …

This study proposes a unified account of consonant gemination in external sandhi in Italian,
also known as Raddoppiamento phenomena. As opposed to the common interpretation of …

This dissertation investigates the concept of finiteness across Romance, a theoretical notion
very frequently used within linguistics although still poorly understood (Ledgeway 2007 …