Raddoppiamento Sintattico in Italian

First Published in 2002. The Italian phenomenon known as raddoppiamento sintattico, or sometimes raddoppiamento fonosintattico, has received a vast amount of attention. Long recognized in Italian grammar books, the process consists of the gemination of a word-initial consonant in certain environments. The word raddoppiamento means “doubling,” and it is deemed “syntactic” or “phonosyntactic” because the process spans word boundaries. This offers a synchronic and diachronic cross-dialectical study of this phenomenon. Chapter 1 Introduction and Prosodic Preliminaries; Chapter 2 Historical Gemination; Chapter 3 Raddoppiamento Sintattico: Data; Chapter 4 Previous Analyses; Chapter 5 Lenition; Chapter 6 Analysis;