| Vowel Elision in Florentine Italian Contributor(s): Garrapa, Luigia (Author) |
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ISBN: 3034310749 ISBN-13: 9783034310741 Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P OUR PRICE: $130.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Italian - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Phonetics & Phonology - Language Arts & Disciplines | Speech & Pronunciation |
| Dewey: 451.5 |
| LCCN: 2011041010 |
| Series: Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studie |
| Physical Information: 396 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This monograph investigates final vowel elision in spoken Italian. Specifically, the book sheds light on the functioning and the constraining factors of final vowel elision in sequences of vowel-final determiners followed by vowel-initial nouns and in sequences of vowel-final proclitics followed by vowel-initial lexical verbs. The analysis is based on real language, that is on corpus and elicited data as well as on their pooled results. The quantitative data are analyzed statistically in order to identify the factors which constrain final vowel elision (i.e. function word class, the morphological category of number realized by the final elidable vowel, and speech style). The representation of final vowel elision in determiners and proclitics proposed in this monograph relies on four theoretical constructs and on their interaction, i.e pre-compiled phrasal allomorphy, dominant allomorphs, lexically encoded selectional preferences among allomorphs, and prosodic rules. |