A Phonetic Investigation into Raddoppiamento sintattico in Sienese Italian

Mary Stevens

A Phonetic Investigation into  Raddoppiamento sintattico  in Sienese Italian
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Country
Switzerland
Published
15 August 2012
Pages
346
ISBN
9783034310963

A Phonetic Investigation into Raddoppiamento sintattico in Sienese Italian

Mary Stevens

This book studies the linguistic phenomenon of Raddoppiamento sintattico (RS), the post-lexical lengthening in Italian of word-initial consonants following certain words, e.g. a [k:]asa ‘at home’. Linguists have long sought describe exactly where and why RS occurs. Based on naturally occurring speech recorded in Siena, Tuscany, this book provides detailed phonetic information on what happens when RS occurs as well as its interactions with other phenomena in natural speech such as lenition and pausing. This study relates this phonetic detail to existing phonological models of RS, vowel length and syllable structure in Italian. The most important subject of the book is the fine-grained description of stops in RS contexts, which are shown to be optionally preaspirated - a phenomenon typically associated with only a few languages outside of Scandinavia. The book considers in detail the potential role of preaspiration in signaling consonant length in this variety of Italian and in doing so serves as a useful model for other laboratory phonology investigations into connected speech processes.

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