Cycle BCL – Laura Bafile (University of Ferrara) – Phenomena of vowel deletion in Tuscan varieties: a floating segment analysis

Abstract

Some phenomena of vowel deletion in Tuscan involve unstable segments, which appear or disappear depending on contextual conditions. An autosegmental analysis is possible, in which the behaviour of such vowels can be treated as the effect of variable contextual conditions that apply to one and the same lexical form containing floating segments, determining their phonetic realisation or non-realisation.