17.268, Books: Phonetics/Phonology, Italian: van der Veer

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Date: 25-Jan-2006
From: K. van den Heuvel < lot at let.uu.nl >
Subject: The Italian 'Mobile Diphthongs': van der Veer 

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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:39:58
From: K. van den Heuvel < lot at let.uu.nl >
Subject: The Italian 'Mobile Diphthongs': van der Veer 

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Title: The Italian 'Mobile Diphthongs' 
Subtitle: A Test Case for Experimental Phonetics and Phonological Theory 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series 122  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: Utrecht Institute of Linguistics / LOT Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistic
	   http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl 

Author: B. van der Veer, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics

Electronic: ISBN: 9076864888 Pages: 191 Price: U.S. $ free
Paperback: ISBN: 9076864888 Pages: 191 Price: Europe EURO 21.57

Abstract:

"The Italian 'mobile diphthongs''" sheds light on the complexity of one of
the salient analogical changes that occurred in the Italian language, viz.
the elimination of the alternation between the stressed diphthongs [j?] and
[w?] and the unstressed monophthongs [e] and [o], respectively, within a
limited group of inflectional and derivational paradigms. Historically, the
monophthong-diphthong alternation was the consequence of a pan-Romance
diphthongization process that affected the Late Latin low mid vowels in
stressed positions. The relatively recent levelling of this alternation has
led to a great deal of variation: in some cases the alternations are
maintained while in others they have been eliminated. 

The first aim of the present study was to scrutinize durational aspects of
Italian diphthongs and monophthongs in general. The second aim was to
examine to what extent the variation caused by analogical levelling of the
monophthong-diphthong alternation, attested in written sources, also occurs
in the spoken language. To investigate these issues, a series of production
experiments was carried out with native speakers of Italian. The final aim
was to provide a coherent phonological treatment of the insights provided
by the experiments within the framework of Optimality Theory.

The book is intended as a contribution to experimental phonetics and
phonology. It introduces an exciting tool for language-variation research,
the speech-shadowing technique, and discusses recent phonological
approaches to phenomena such as glide formation, analogy and paradigm
uniformity. Therefore, this study is of interest to both phoneticians and
phonologists, as well as to linguists with a special interest in Italian. 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics
                     Phonology

Subject Language(s): Italian (ita)

Written In: English  (eng)

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