Luigia Garrapa
List of John Benjamins publications for which Luigia Garrapa plays a role.
Articles
2012 Stressed vowel duration and stress placement in Italian: What paroxytones and proparoxytones have in common Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2010: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Leiden 2010, Franco, Irene, Sara Lusini and Andrés Saab (eds.), pp. 87–114 | Article
This paper examines stressed vowel duration and word stress placement in Italian. It presents experimental data showing that absolute duration is slightly longer in paroxytones than in proparoxytones (as previously reported), but relative duration (computed as the ratio between stressed vowel… read more
2012 Hiatus resolution between function and lexical words in French and Italian: Phonology or morphology? Inflection and Word Formation in Romance Languages, Gaglia, Sascha and Marc-Olivier Hinzelin (eds.), pp. 141–178 | Article
From a crosslinguistic perspective, heterosyllabic vowels sequences across word boundaries tend to be resolved to create unmarked CV syllables. Building on previous accounts and quantitative data, this study investigates the phonological and morphological factors determining hiatus resolution in… read more
2010 Morphology and phonology of word-final vowel deletion in spoken Tuscan Italian Romance Linguistics 2008: Interactions in Romance, Arregi, Karlos, Zsuzsanna Fagyal, Silvina Montrul and Annie Tremblay (eds.), pp. 57–72 | Article
Italian elision consists in the optional deletion of the final vowel of a function word followed by a vowel-initial lexical word. The aim of the present study is to reach a better understanding of the interplay between phonology and morphology in Italian elision by analyzing a corpus of spoken… read more
2009 Vowel elision in spoken Italian Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2006: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Amsterdam, 7–9 December 2006, Torck, Danièle and W. Leo Wetzels (eds.), pp. 73–88 | Article
Italian vowel elision across word boundaries has been considered obligatory with
the masculine singular determiners uno ‘a/an’, lo ‘the’ and quello ‘that’ in prevocalic
context, but as unpredictable and subject to variation with the other function
words. I will show that, in Florentine Italian,… read more