The Development of Latin Post-Tonic /Cr/ Clusters in Select Northern Italian Dialects
300th Edition
Published on 27. February 2012
XI, 104 pages
978-1-4539-0563-0 (ISBN)
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The Development of Latin Post-Tonic /Cr/ Clusters in Select Northern Italian Dialects offers an explanation of the disparate outcomes of similar consonant clusters within several related Northern Italian dialects through application of optimality theory and frequency effects. It features a new approach to previously underrepresented phenomena in Italian dialectology in that it combines previously separated changes into one single theory. This volume is particularly useful for scholars within the fields of Romance languages and linguistics as well as for advanced students of the Italian language with an interest in dialects or advanced students of linguistics specializing in Romance languages or Italian.
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The Development of Latin Post-Tonic /Cr/ Clusters in Select Northern Italian Dialects
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Jeff Kilpatrick is an instructor of Italian at the University of Georgia. He earned his PhD in historical linguistics with a specialization in Italian dialects.
Content
- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- TABLES vii
- FIGURES ix
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi
- 1 INTRODUCTION 1
- 1.1 Overview 1
- 2 CHARACTERISTICS OF NORTHERN ITALIAN DIALECTS 5
- 2.0 The Northern Dialects 5
- 2.1 Piemontese 6
- 2.2 Piacentino 7
- 2.3 Genovese 8
- 2.4 Milanese 9
- 2.5 Bolognese 10
- 2.6 Standard Italian 11
- 3 METATHESIS 15
- 3.0 Metathesis 15
- 3.1 Background of Related Studies in Metathesis 15
- 3.2 Metathesis in /Cr/ Clusters 20
- 3.2.1 Cases of /Cr/ Metathesis 21
- 3.3 Metathesis in /CCr/ Clusters 22
- 3.4 Dentro and Destra 23
- 3.5 Phonotactic Optimizaiton and Optimality Theory 25
- 3.5.1 Frequency 33
- 3.6 Perceptual Metathesis 34
- 3.7 Conclusion 35
- 4 EPENTHESIS 40
- 4.0 Background of Related Studies in Epenthesis 40
- 4.1 Epenthesis in Optimality Theory 43
- 4.1.1 Epenthesis in the Northern Italian Dialects 45
- 4.2 Epenthesis or Retention 46
- 4.3 Epenthesis in /Cr/ Clusters 48
- 4.4 Epenthesis in /CCr/ Clusters 49
- 4.5 Conclusion 51
- 5 DELETION 55
- 5.0 Deletion 55
- 5.1 Background of Related Studies in Deletion 57
- 5.2 Deletion in /Cr/ Clusters 59
- 5.3 Deletion in /CCr/ Clusters 61
- 5.4 Consonant Cluster Neutralization 63
- 5.5 Conclusion 71
- 6 FREQUENCY 76
- 6.0 Frequency Effects and Lexical Diffusion 76
- 6.1 Background of Previous Studies in Frequency Effects and Lexical Diffusion 78
- 6.2 Optimality Theory and Frequency 79
- 6.3 /Cr/ Clusters 80
- 6.4 /CCr/ Clusters 81
- 6.5 Frequencies of /Cr/ Words in Latin 81
- 6.6 Conclusion 88
- 7 CONCLUSIONS 94
- REFERENCES 97
- INDEX 105
