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Prieto, Pilar; D'Imperio, Mariapaola; Fivela, Barbara Gili – Language and Speech, 2005
The article describes the contrastive possibilities of alignment of high accents in three Romance varieties, namely, Central Catalan, Neapolitan Italian, and Pisa Italian. The Romance languages analyzed in this article provide crucial evidence that small differences in alignment in rising accents should be encoded phonologically. To account for…
Descriptors: Romance Languages, Italian, Suprasegmentals, Phonology

Davis, Stuart; And Others – Italica, 1987
Reviews the limited amount of research regarding ways in which primary stress is assigned to second conjugation infinitives in Italian and then proposes a new perspective taking into consideration root vowels, root-final consonants, syllable onset, monosyllabic vs. polysyllabic roots, and canonical form. (CB)
Descriptors: Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Italian