Stress shift, stressed enclitics and Raddoppiamento Sintattico in Central and Southern Italian dialects. (original) (raw)
2019, In: Luciano Romito (éd.). Quaderni del Dipartimento di Linguistica Università della Calabria 27 (30 anni di Laboratorio di Fonetica). ISSN 1128-7675 (Rome : Aracne).
ABSTRACT: In Southern Italian dialects we find several verbal forms which show double enclitics Cl1Cl2, where we observe a stress shift on Cl1 or on final verbal V before a Cl. In these Italian varieties this has consequences for the rule of Raddoppiamento Sintattico since a geminate of the first consonant is triggered in such clitics: after the stress shift, any initial consonant of Cl can geminate. The geminate in clitics is conditioned by the constraint STRESS-TO-WEIGHT (STW). In Italian (and in Spanish but not in Catalan) the stress is not shifted on clitics in parallel forms. The stress shift in Italo-Romance dialects follow what I call the three-moras-window and pronominal postverbal enclitics always behave as phonological words footed with the verbs. In these verbal structures stress fells on one of the last three moras which identify the maximal prosodic window . Stress shift takes place on clitics clusters to avoid the stress to fall on the fourth mora. This analysis is presented in a version of OT joined with prosodic and metrical phonology .
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