Stressed vowel duration and stress placement in Italian

Canalis, Stefano Celestino; Garrapa, Luigia

doi:10.1075/rllt.4.05can

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“…He suggests that to avoid a foot with the structure (ˈLH), with a stressed light syllable followed by an unstressed heavy one -which is illicit in systems with moraic trochaic feet -such words are parsed as (ˈH)H<σ> (with the final syllable being treated as extrametrical). Even more radically, Canalis/Garrapa (2012) argue that all antepenultimate stressed vowels in Italian are most appropriately analyzed as long (i.e. bimoraic), making all stressed (non-final) syllables heavy (cf.…”

Section: Standard Italianmentioning

confidence: 99%

1 Length and weight in Romance

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Manual of Romance Phonetics and Phonology

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In this chapter we consider the phonological status and patterning of vowel and consonant length and syllabic quantity across Romance varieties. The chapter is divided into two parts. In the first section, we provide an overview of the status of vowel and consonant length in the modern Romance varieties and describe the diachronic context. Synchronically, the presence of a phonemic contrast between short and long vowels is characteristic particularly of Gallo-Romance (including the varieties of northern Italy and Alpine Romance); some kind of distinction between short and long vowels and/or consonants (not necessarily one with phonemic significance) is found in a broader range of varieties, primarily in Italy. Diachronic traces of length, however, are found across most Romance languages. The second section takes up the question of phonological weight and shows that weight-sensitive patterns, primarily relating to the placement of stress, minimality requirements, and prosodic morphology, are pervasive throughout the family, even in languages without phonological length distinctions.

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Section: Standard Italianmentioning

confidence: 99%