Stefano Canalis
List of John Benjamins publications in which Stefano Canalis is involved.
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
2009 Post-tonic vowel harmony in some dialects of Central Italy: The role of prosodic structure, contrast and consonants Phonetics and Phonology: Interactions and interrelations, Vigário, Marina, Sónia Frota and M. João Freitas (eds.), pp. 247–266 | Article
In Central Italy several dialects display post-tonic regressive vowel harmony, by which post-tonic vowels copy all the features of the word-final vowel. On the basis of phonetic and phonological arguments I argue that the penultimate vowel of proparoxytones, the typical target of this process, is a… read more