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Veneto Teramo Foggiano Salentino Calvello Southern Umbro
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Languages_spoken_in_Italy.svg
from some Romance dialects Ling 203 10/1/2010 Veneto Teramo - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
from some Romance dialects Ling 203 10/1/2010 Veneto Teramo - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Dialectal Variation: an example from some Romance dialects Ling 203 10/1/2010 Veneto Teramo Foggiano Salentino Calvello Southern Umbro source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Languages_spoken_in_Italy.svg Lena source:
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Lena
source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6b/Castillian_dialects_in_spain.png
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Note on notational conventions
V = vowel (with or without accent) V́ = accented vowel V[-accent] = unaccented vowel The rules generally ignore the low vowel [a].
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Foggiano/Pugliese
fem masc sing → plural 1sg. 2sg. V → [+high]
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Veneto
fem masc sing → plural 1sg. 2sg. V[+tense, -accent] → [+high, +front] V́[+tense, -low] → [+high]
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Southern Umbro
V[+tense] → [+high] V[-tense] → [+tense] fem masc sing → plural 1sg. 2sg.
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Salentino
fem masc sing → plural 1sg. 2sg. V[+tense] → [+high] V́1
[-tense, αfront] → V0 [+high, αfront, +tense]V́1 [+front]
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Calvello
fem masc sing → plural 1sg. 2sg.
V[+tense, -accent, -low] → [+high, +front] V́[+tense]
→
[+high] V́1
[-tense, αfront] →
V0
[+high, αfront, +tense]V́1 [+front, +tense]
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Lena
V[-accent] → [+high] V́[-low] → [+high] V́[+low] → [mid]
fem masc sing → plural 1sg. 2sg.
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Teramo
V[-accent] → [+high, +front] V́ → [+high, +tense] V[+low]
→
[+high, +front]
fem masc sing → plural 1sg. 2sg.
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