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An acoustic analysis of palatal obstruents in two Romance varieties [PDF]
Palatal stops and affricates are relatively rare in the world’s languages, compared to velar stops and postalveolar affricates. In some languages, palatal stops underwent a diachronic shift and merged with postalveolar affricates. This study undertakes a spectral analysis of palatal stops in two Romance varieties, i.e.
Schmid, Stephan; https://orcid.org/
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Consonant clusters and sonority in the Germanic and Romance varieties of Northern Italy [PDF]
This survey aims at describing and analysing onsets and codas – with special focus on consonant clusters – of selected Germanic and Romance varieties spoken in the language contact area of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. We will try to determine a) what dialects can reveal about syllable theory and the universality of the sonority scale and b) whether ...
Meneguzzo, Marta
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1 Length and weight in Romance [PDF]
In this chapter we consider the phonological status and patterning of vowel and consonant length and syllabic quantity across Romance varieties. The chapter is divided into two parts.
Iosad, Pavel; id_orcid +3 more
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Romance in the workplace is a common phenomenon and inevitable from organization dynamics. Romance in the workplace has double effects to the organization: positive and negative.
Muhammad Irfan Syaebani +1 more
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Stress shift under cliticization in Nuorese Sardinian
In most Romance languages clitics are stress neutral: when they attach to a host, they have no effect on stress placement: this is the case of Italian and Spanish.
Rosangela Lai
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Short vs long stem alternations in Romance verbal inflection: the S-morphome
: Some verbs in Romance (e.g. the reflexes of faciō 'do', dīcō 'say', habeō 'have', sapiō 'know', possum 'be able', and volō 'want') display alternations between a short (e.g. It. f-are, f-a, d-ire) and a long (e.g. It.
Borja Herce, Chundra A. Cathcart
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Rule scattering and vowel length in Northern Romance
In this paper I reconsider the synchronic status of distinctive vowel length and vowel lengthening and shortening rules in Northern Romance varieties, in light of Loporcaro’s (2015) wide-ranging study of vowel quantity in numerous Romance dialects ...
Pavel Iosad
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Reduplication as a Strategy for -ever Free Relatives: Semantic and Syntactic Observations*
Italo-Romance varieties display a typologically rare strategy to realize the unconditional (or free-choice) free relative clauses, i.e. the reduplication of the verb complex.
Giuseppina Silvestri
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Investigating pan-Romance prepositional adverbials: A methodology for field research in Romance
International audienceComplex adverbials built with the pattern ‘Preposition + Adjective (PA)’ such as Portuguese em especial ‘especially’ or Romanian de sigur ‘for sure’ display a remarkable frequency and pan-Romance consistency.
Wissner, Inka
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The aim of this paper is to present a first dialectometric approach to the geolinguistic distribution of the Romance varieties using a new corpus based on the Atlas Linguistique Roman (ALiR) which is currently being developed at the Centro Ramón Piñeiro ...
Esteve Valls, Manuel González
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