Syllable Structure vs. Segmental Phonotactics: Geminates and Clusters in Italian Revisited

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  • Kristie McCrary
  • Barbara Gili Fivela
چکیده

This paper reports on research that seeks to determine whether individual native Italian speakers consistently treat consonant clusters as heterosyllabic vs. tautosyllabic in experiments involving two phonological phenomena which have received syllable based-analyses: Raddoppiamento-Sintattico (RS) and definite article allomorphy. The convergence of both RS and article allomorphy on the same syllable structure has been claimed to provide empirical verification for the success of the syllable-based analyses. However, experimental results show that while speakers vary in the choice of article allomorph before various consonant clusters (e.g. CN, CS), interpreted as variability in syllabification, comparable variability does not occur in the application of RS. An analysis of RS is proposed that draws on syllable-independent phonotactic constraints governing the context where geminates are permissible.

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تاریخ انتشار 2002