Francesco Burroni
List of John Benjamins publications in which Francesco Burroni is involved.
Article
2024 Chapter 5. Re-examining initial geminates: Typology, evolutionary phonology, and phonetics Historical Linguistics 2019: Selected papers from the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Canberra, 1–5 July 2019, Evans, Bethwyn, Maria Kristina Gallego and Luisa Miceli (eds.), pp. 109–145 | Chapter
We present a typology of the diachronic pathways leading to the emergence of Initial Geminates (IGs). We show that synchronic phonological properties of IGs, especially their moraic status, may be tied to the diachronic trajectory that leads to their emergence. This is expected if we follow an… read more