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Syntactic Doubling: Some Data on Tuscan Italian

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Cross-Modal Analysis of Speech, Gestures, Gaze and Facial Expressions

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The data of an experimental study on Syntactic Doubling (Raddoppiamento Sintattico (RS)) in Tuscan Italian are reported and discussed. (a) Consonant not subject to RS with consonant possibly subject to RS in adjacent stressed syllables; (b) with a phonological boundary intervening between trigger and target; and (c) with no phonological phrase boundary intervening are compared. We consistently find lengthening in (b) (short RS), but more lengthening in (c) (long RS). Our data indicate that (short) RS applies across phonological phrases. The publication of these data was motivated by the recent interest raised by the ESF-funded project Edisyn [1] on dialect syntax aiming, among the other goals, to investigate doubling phenomena in European languages and dialects for cross-linguistic comparisons.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Second University of Naples, and IIASS, Via G. Pellegrino 19, 84019, Vietri sul Mare, (SA), Italy

    Anna Esposito

  2. Institute of Photonics and Electronics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Chaberská 57, 182 52, Prague 8, Czech Republic

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Esposito, A. (2009). Syntactic Doubling: Some Data on Tuscan Italian. In: Esposito, A., Vích, R. (eds) Cross-Modal Analysis of Speech, Gestures, Gaze and Facial Expressions. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5641. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03320-9_14

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