Approaches to Metaphony in the Languages of Italy / / ed. by Francesc Torres-Tamarit, Kathrin Linke, Marc van Oostendorp.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Calabrese, Andrea,; Canalis, Stefano,; De Sisto, Mirella,; D’Alessandro, Roberta,; Grimaldi, Mirko,; Krämer, Martin,; Linke, Kathrin,; Loporcaro, Michele,; Manzini, M. Rita,; Mascaró, Joan,; Miglietta, Sandra,; Oostendorp, Marc van,; Passino, Diana,; Savoia, Leonardo M.,; Sigona, Francesco,; Torres-Tamarit, Francesc,; Walker, Rachel,
• HerausgeberIn: Linke, Kathrin,; Oostendorp, Marc van,; Torres-Tamarit, Francesc,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Phonology and Phonetics [PP] , 20
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 374 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of contributors --; Introduction --; Harmonic processes and metaphony in some Italian varieties --; Metaphony and diphthongization in Southern Italy: reconstructive implications for sound change in early Romance --; On the morphophonology of metaphonic alternations in Altamurano --; Metaphony in the Ticino Canton and phonological features --; Progressive metaphony in the Abruzzese dialect of Teramo --; Metaphony and Raddoppiamento Fonosintattico in plural nouns in the dialect of Airola --; On integrating different methodologies in phonological research: acoustic, articulatory, behavioral and neurophysiological evidence in the study of a metaphony system --; Which syntactic information gets interpreted by phonosyntactic processes? Evidence from /u/ propagation in Southern Italian dialects --; On the typology of metaphony/stress dependent harmony --; Metaphonic chain shifts, vowel height and markedness --; Positional prominence and consonantal interactions in metaphony and post-tonic harmony --; Opaque interactions between vowel merger and metaphony --; Abruzzese metaphony and the A eater --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110366310; 9783110762501; 9783110701005; 9783110742978; 9783110485103; 9783110485257
• ISSN: 1861-4191
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110366310
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Francesc Torres-Tamarit, Kathrin Linke, Marc van Oostendorp.

This volume presents current work on a topic in Romance linguistics that still informs linguistic theory to this day: metaphony in the languages of Italy. Papers discuss fundamental research topics such as phonological opacity in the light of chain shifts, post-tonic harmony and consonant transparency, the role of morphosyntax in the typology of metaphony, the explanatory adequacy of feature-based versus element-based analyses, and the locus of metaphony in grammar. Other chapters present new experimental data, thus building a more accurate empirical foundation for the study of metaphony. We envision the volume to become a reference book not only for an updated descriptive survey of metaphonic patterns in Italy but also a thorough discussion of the challenges that metaphony poses for different (morpho)phonological theories. The book bridges the gap between descriptive works and theoretical thinking in the study of metaphony.