Reassessing the Role of the Syllable in Italian Phonology - An Experimental Study of Consonant Cluster Syllabification, Definite

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 segment duration, and tests the claimed convergence of multiple phenomena on the same syllable structure.

List of contents

List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One Introduction -- Chapter Two Consonant Cluster Syllabification -- Chapter Three Definite Article Allomorphy -- Chapter Four Segment Duration -- Chapter Five Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.

About the author

Kristie McCrary Kambourakis

Product details

• Authors: Kristie McCrary Kambourakis
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.10.2016
• EAN: 9781138984684
• ISBN: 978-1-138-98468-4
• No. of pages: 211
• Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics