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 …

“Loanwords” are words borrowed from one language to another. These borrowed words
usually undergo “adaptation” processes to conform to the structural constraints of the …

This study presents a formal generative model that integrates perception and reading, and
uses English intervocalic consonants borrowed into Italian as either singletons or geminates …

In order to convey pragmatic functions, a speaker has to select an intonation contour (the
tune) in addition to the words that are to be spoken (the text). The tune and text are assumed …

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 paper investigates the emergence of marked phonological structures in loan word
adaptations, namely, the appearance of non-etymological geminate consonants and word …

This contribution explores the possibility of disentangling the information fused in the Italian
nominal inflectional endings to the extent that a one-to-one correspondence between …

In the second part of the paper, this hypothesis on the representation of ternary stress is
checked in the light of quantitative phenomena concerning some Southern Italian dialects …

Le analisi metriche di impianto generativo hanno per lungo tempo contemplato per l'italiano
un solo tipo di piede, vale a dire il trocheo. Negli ultimi anni si sta tuttavia imponendo una …

Azokban a nyelvekben, melyekben zöngés–zöngétlen ellentét mutatható ki zörejhangok
között, zöngésségi hasonulás (ZH) is működik, vagyis szomszédos zörejhangok jobbról …