On the analysis of geminates in Standard Italian and Italian dialects

Loporcaro, Michele

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“…Unlike in experiment 1, both conditions contain words whose first syllable is closed (i.e., has a consonant after the vowel) and which do not differ in terms of number of timing units (Gili Fivela and Zmarich, 2005, for experimental evidence; Loporcaro, 1990). This result strongly suggests that the gemination effect is not solely reducible to difference in syllable structure between singleton and geminate words (open vs closed syllable) but represents a genuine effect of gemination.…”

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An acoustic study on non-local anticipatory effects of Italian length contrast

Turco

Braun

2016

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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The present study investigates non-local temporal adjustments before an upcoming length contrast in Italian minimal pairs that differ only in the length of the medial consonant (e.g., geminate word palla "ball" vs singleton word pala "shovel"). This contrast is reportedly signaled by the duration of the singleton/geminate consonant and of the preceding vowel. Here, it is shown that the duration adjustment extends further to the word-initial consonant, e.g., the [p] in palla is significantly longer than that in pala (experiment 1). In experiment 2, an effect of syllable structure is ruled out, an unavoidable confound when comparing singleton and geminate words. The comparison of geminate words with cluster words (e.g., as palco "stage"), both of which have a closed first syllable, shows a similar lengthening. Implications for models of speech production are discussed.

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“…Gili Fivela and Zmarich, 2005). In other words, it is typically assumed that the [l] in palla closes the first syllable and starts the second syllable (Loporcaro, 1990), while the [l] in pala constitutes only the onset of the second syllable.…”

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An acoustic study on non-local anticipatory effects of Italian length contrast

Turco

Braun

2016

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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“…Vowel duration differences are not contrastive but contextually conditioned and depend on stress and syllabic structure (D'Imperio & Rosenthall, 1999). For instance, Italian vowels are lengthened in open stressed penultimate syllables, so that the first /a/ is produced as longer in tana (/ˈtana/, 'den') than in tanta (/ˈtanta/, much-F.SG, 'much'; Farnetani & Kori, 1986;Loporcaro, 1996). Double vowel letters in Italian occur as a consequence of morphological concatenation, for instance if the second person singular present marker <-i> /i/ is added to a morpheme ending in <i> /i/, as in scii, /'ʃii/, ski-PRS.2.SG, '[you] ski'.…”

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Orthography-Induced Length Contrasts in the Second Language Phonological Systems of L2 Speakers of English: Evidence from Minimal Pairs

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A note on versions:The version presented here may differ from the published version or, version of record, if you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the 'permanent WRAP url' above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription.For more information, please contact the WRAP Team at: wrap@warwick.ac.uk Bassetti, Sokolović-Perović, Mairano, & Cerni (2018, online first) Orthography-induced length contrasts in the second language phonological systems of L2 speakers of English: Evidence from minimal pairs. Language and Speech. DOI: 10. Abstract Research shows that the orthographic forms ('spellings') of second language (L2) words affect speech production in L2 speakers. The present study investigated whether English orthographic forms lead L2 speakers to produce English homophonic word pairs as phonological minimal pairs. Targets were 33 orthographic minimal pairs, that is to say homophonic words that would be pronounced as phonological minimal pairs if orthography affects pronunciation. Word pairs contained the same target sound spelled with one letter or two, such as the /n/ in finish and Finnish (both /ˈfɪnɪʃ/ in Standard British English). To test for effects of length and type of L2 exposure, we compared Italian instructed learners of English, Italian-English late bilinguals with lengthy naturalistic exposure, and English natives. A reading aloud task revealed that Italian speakers of English L2 produce two English homophonic words as a minimal pair distinguished by different consonant or vowel length, for instance producing the target /ˈfɪnɪʃ/ with a short [n] or a long [nː] to reflect the number of consonant letters in the spelling of the words finish and Finnish. Similar effects were found on the pronunciation of vowels, for instance in the orthographic pair scene-seen (both /siːn/). Naturalistic exposure did not reduce orthographic effects, as effects were found both in learners and in late bilinguals living in an English-speaking environment. It appears that the orthographic form of L2 words can result in the establishment of a phonological contrast that does not exist in the target language. Results have implications for models of L2 phonological development. Bassetti, Sokolović-Perović, Mairano, & Cerni (2018, online first) Orthography-induced length contrasts in the second language phonological systems of L2 speakers of English: Evidence from minimal pairs. Language and Speech. DOI: 10.1177/002383091878014 2 Unlike native languages, second languages are often acquired through a mixture of spoken and written input. Recent research shows that the orthographic forms, or spellings, of second language (L2) sounds and words affect L2 speech production (Bassetti, Hayes-Harb, & Escudero, 2015), and there have been claims that L2 orthographic forms may lead L2 speakers to establish phonological contrasts that do not exist in the target language (Bassetti, 2017). The present paper therefore aims to investigate the...

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“…Saltarelli 1984). We further assume that geminates are parsed as heterosyllabic (see Saltarelli 1983;Loporcaro 1990).…”

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A formal account of the interaction of orthography and perception

Hamann

Colombo

2017

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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This study presents a formal generative model that integrates perception and reading, and uses English intervocalic consonants borrowed into Italian as either singletons or geminates to illustrate how the model works. Consisting of words borrowed in the 20th century, our data show that the quantity of the intervocalic consonant in an Italian loanword depends on its written representation in English, the source language. Thus only English intervocalic consonants that are written with two identical letters (for example, as in splatter) are borrowed as geminates. We provide a formalization of these orthographic adaptations with grapheme-to-phoneme mappings in the shape of Optimality-theoretic constraints that model the native reading process, and show how the output of these mappings is restricted by native phonotactic constraints. Furthermore, we illustrate that the native reading grammar proposed here complements the perceptual adaptation model by Boersma and Hamann (2009). This combined model is shown to be able to account for simultaneous orthographic and perceptual borrowings in Italian, as well as to hold for reading and perception outside the realm of loanword adaptation.

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On the analysis of geminates in Standard Italian and Italian dialects

Cited by 17 publications

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An acoustic study on non-local anticipatory effects of Italian length contrast

An acoustic study on non-local anticipatory effects of Italian length contrast

Orthography-Induced Length Contrasts in the Second Language Phonological Systems of L2 Speakers of English: Evidence from Minimal Pairs

A formal account of the interaction of orthography and perception

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