" Though centered on Italian, cross-linguistic analysis is extensively provided: data from
languages as diverse as English, Hungarian, Modern Greek, Hausa, Chichewa, Serbo …

This book offers the first comprehensive description of the prosody of nine Romance
languages that takes into account internal dialectal variation. Teams of experts examine the …

Current models of word production assume that words are stored as linear sequences of
phonemes which are structured into syllables only at the moment of production. This is …

The debate on the phonological representation of Italian geminate consonants is almost as
old as the discipline of phonology itself. As is well known, two opposing views have been …

First Published in 2002. The Italian phenomenon known as raddoppiamento sintattico, or
sometimes raddoppiamento fonosintattico, has received a vast amount of attention. Long …

This study proposes a unified account of consonant gemination in external sandhi in Italian,
also known as Raddoppiamento phenomena. As opposed to the common interpretation of …

Zwei Forschungstraditionen dominieren die phonologische Beschreibung von Rhythmus:
zum einen die aus der Phonetik hervorgegangene Typologie silben-und akzentzählender …

This dissertation proposes a standardized approach to the analysis of contact-induced
language change and applies the model to an examination of Faetar, a language which has …

This chapter investigates the speech rhythm of Porteño, the variety of Spanish spoken in
Buenos Aires, which is said to be influenced by Italian due to massive streams of …

A fundamental question about speech is whether it is governed by rhythmic constraints. One
phenomenon that may support the existence of such constraints is the rhythm rule, a …