Cover; Original Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction and Prosodic Preliminaries; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Prosodic preliminaries; 1.3 Stress and vowel length: diachronic developments; Chapter 2: Historical Gemination; 2.1 Assimilation; 2.2 Compensatory lengthening; gemination before glides and the role of sonority; 2.3 Stress and gemination; 2.4 Absence of geminates in northern dialects; Chapter 3: Raddoppiamento Sintattico: Data; 3.1 RS in Standard Italian and the central dialects; 3.2 Northern dialects; 3.3 Southern dialects
3.4 ConclusionChapter 4: Previous Analyses; 4.1 Stress and syllable weight; 4.2 Stress clash; 4.3 Syntactic analyses; 4.4 Diachronic analyses; Chapter 5: Lenition; 5.1 Standard Italian; 5.2 Central dialects (excluding Standard Italian); 5.2.1 Tuscan spirantization (la gorgia toscana); 5.2.2 Interaction of lenition with RS; 5.3 Northern dialects; 5.4 Southern dialect; 5.4.1 Interaction with RS; 5.5 Conclusion; Chapter 6: Analysis; 6.1 Optimality Theory; 6.2 Analysis of RS in Standard Italian and the central dialects; 6.3 RS in the southern dialects; 6.4 RS in the northern dialects
6.4.1 Northern dialects that lengthen final vowels in RS position6.5 Lenition; 6.6 A historical picture: RS, diachronic change, and OT; 6.7 Historical conclusions; 6.8 Conclusion; References; Index
Summary
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-128) and index
