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Download full textDavis, Stuart – 1987
A distribution of the Italian definite articles "il" and "lo" is proposed that makes use of both Steriade's syllabification rules and a language-specific sonority hierarchy. The incorporation of these rules results in the generalization that the definite article "il" occurs before nouns or adjectives that begin with a consonant that is a member of…
Descriptors: Consonants, Determiners (Languages), Italian, Language Processing
