Lenition in Tuscan Italian (Gorgia Toscana)

Marotta, Giovanna

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“…Just as voicing, it also applies across word boundaries, and usually /k/ is more intensely targeted than /p/ and /t/. In many parts of Tuscany (some form of) gorgia and (some form of) intervocalic voicing now coexist (see Giannelli & Savoia 1978, 1979Giannelli 2000;Marotta 2008 for details about their variation and mutual interaction), and possibly coexisted in the past as well (Giannelli & Savoia 1979. As they apply in the same environment, the two processes may compete with each other, and since gorgia is more sociolinguistically prestigious than voicing, it has caused partial retreat of the latter in Tuscany.…”

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The voicing of intervocalic stops in Old Tuscan and probabilistic sound change

Canalis

2014

Folia Linguistica

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The article examines the dual outcome of Latin intervocalic /p t k/ in Old Tuscan. While these stops remain voiceless in most of the Tuscan lexicon, a significant number of words are voiced. The prevailing opinion is that preservation of voicelessness is the native outcome, and that the words displaying voicing were borrowed from Romance languages in which intervocalic voicing was systematic. However, a number of facts militate against this hypothesis, including the presence of voicing in Tuscan words that are unattested or maintain a voiceless stop in the supposed donor languages. The results of a corpus-based analysis of an Old Tuscan lexicon show that the distribution of the voiced outcomes is phonologically conditioned (contra the borrowing hypothesis), as they are more likely if the stop was velar, next to low(er) vowels, next to stress and if followed by a liquid consonant. These results are also an example of sound change with clear and fine-grained phonological conditioning but a non-systematic outcome; irregularity was probably caused by the allophonic nature of Old Tuscan voicing and by its interaction with another lenition process.

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The voicing of intervocalic stops in Old Tuscan and probabilistic sound change

Canalis

2014

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“…Plosive affrication in Pisan Italian (Marotta 2008) appears similar to that observed in Liverpool English, in that the affricate realisations generally lack a transient release burst.…”

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“…English (Knowles 1973, Sangster 2001, Honeybone 2001, Marotta & Barth 2005, Watson 2007a, to which we have referred throughout this paper, as well as with that of plosive affrication in Pisan Italian as described by Marotta (2008).…”

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“…We wish to thank audiences at the Nineteenth Manchester Phonology Meeting and at the Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester for helpful discussion; in particular Colin Ewen and Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero. have highlighted the relevance of duration (e.g. Marotta 2008), and several authors have adopted definitions referring to both constriction degree and duration (Lavoie 2001, Kirchner 2004, Bye & de Lacy 2008. Most recently, Bauer (2008) has proposed that to qualify as lenition, a pattern of change -or to be more precise, its actuation in synchronic phonology -should lend itself to an explanation in terms of local articulatory underachievement: that is, the failure on the speaker's part to reach the target articulatory configuration for the sound in question.…”

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Lenition, fortition and the status of plosive affrication: the case of spontaneous RP English/t/

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Plug

2012

Phonology

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This paper reports on a phonetic and phonological study of /t/-affrication in spontaneous British English Received Pronunciation. The study is motivated by the uncertainty surrounding plosive affrication in the literature on lenition and fortition. We suggest that a decision as to the status of a given pattern involving affrication in terms of lenition or fortition should be based on thorough phonetic and phonological analysis. We present a phonetic and phonological account of /t/-affrication, which takes into consideration the temporal and spectral characteristics of the sounds involved, as well as their distribution across phonological environments. Crucially, we compare affricated instances of /t/ with aspirated and fricated ones in the same dataset -the former arguably unmarked in this variety, the latter uncontroversially the result of lenition. We argue that the phonetic and phonological characteristics of /t/-affrication presented in this paper are consistent with an account in terms of fortition rather than lenition.

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“…Marotta 2008, Scheer 2009b, the aforementioned Belarusian (Scheer 2009a), and to a certain extent English. Languages where this is notoriously the case include Sardinian (e.g.…”

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Invariant syllable skeleton, complex segments and word edges

Scheer

2012

J. Ling.

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San Duanmu'sSyllable Structure: The Limits of Variationraises a number of questions that are of general interest for phonological theory. Of special interest here are: the genesis and management of linearity in complex segments, the place of analogy (or paradigm uniformity) in grammar, the role of morphology in accounting for phonological patterns, the balance of static (distributional patterns) and dynamic (phonological processes) evidence for syllable structure, the role of stress in syllabification, and the import of corpus-based data for phonological analysis. In each case, Duanmu's proposals are evaluated according to their intrinsic consistency, the empirical record and the relevant body of literature. Alternative ways of handling the phenomena are offered, and these are fairly traditional in most cases. Duanmu's book is particularly relevant in the current constitution of the field where the see-saw movement between computation and representations seems to swing back in direction of the latter after having long been immobilised on the computational end. Standing clearly on the representational side, the theory exposed in the book aims to show that all surface strings may be reduced to a fixed and invariant syllable template, C(onsonant)V(owel)X. This enterprise is interesting especially in presence of another representationally-oriented theory, CVCV (Lowenstamm 1996, Scheer 2004), which also aims at reducing surface variation to an invariant syllabic skeleton, made of a monotonic sequence of CV units. However, the CVX and the CVCV templates are quite distinct, and the strategies that are used in order to accommodate the surface string are opposite (shrinking in the former case, expanding in the latter).

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Lenition in Tuscan Italian (Gorgia Toscana)

Cited by 53 publications

References 24 publications

The voicing of intervocalic stops in Old Tuscan and probabilistic sound change

The voicing of intervocalic stops in Old Tuscan and probabilistic sound change

Lenition, fortition and the status of plosive affrication: the case of spontaneous RP English/t/

Invariant syllable skeleton, complex segments and word edges

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