PHONOLOGICAL THEORY AND THE DIALECTS OF ITALY -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PHONOLOGICAL THEORY AND THE DIALECTS OF ITALY -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The Minor Languages of Italy -- 2. Italian Dialectology -- 3. Summary of Articles -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VOWEL LENGTH AND CONSONANTAL VOICING IN FRIULIAN* -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The data -- 2. Approaches to Friulian vowel length -- 3. The Relationship Between Vowel Lengthening and Voicing in Synchronic Friulian: Empirical Evidence -- 4. Acoustic Analysis of Long Vowel + Obstruent Sequences in Friulian -- REFERENCES -- CONSONANT GEMINATION IN NEAPOLITAN -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The Basic Data and the Context for RS -- 2. The Prosodic Status of RS Triggers: Fnc/ Lex -- 3. The Phonology of RS -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- THE FEATURE [ADVANCED TONGUE ROOT]AND VOWEL FRONTING IN ROMANCE* -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The Dialect of Altamura -- 2. Theoretical Background of Analysis -- 3. Fronting in the Dialect of Altamura -- 4. Fronting in Old French -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- VOWEL ALTERNATION, VOWEL/CONSONANT ASSIMILATION AND OCP EFFECTS IN A BARESE DIALECT* -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Coratino Vowel System -- 2. Vowel Reduction and Retention -- 3. OCP and Tier Scanning -- 4. Labial Vowels in the Stem -- 5. Stem and Suffix -- 6. Low Vowel Reduction -- 7. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- HOW MANY MORAS?OVERLENGTH AND MAXIMAL MORAICITY IN ITALY -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Evidence of Overlength in Romance Languages -- 2. Problems and Issues in Identifying Overlength and Three Degrees of Length in Italy -- 3. Overlength and Trimoraicity in Bolognese: A Special Case -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- STRESS STABILITY UNDER CLITICIZATION AND THE PROSODIC STATUS OF ROMANCE CLITICS* -- 0. Introduction.

1. Stress Stability in Standard Italian -- 2. (Allegedly) PW-Sensittve Rules in Standard Italian -- 3. PW-Sensitive Rules in Some Romance Dialects of Italy -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- PHONOLOGICAL DISSIMILATION AND CLITIC MORPHOLOGY IN ITALO-ROMANCE -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The Nature of Dissimilation -- 2. The Absence of **[l- l-] in Italo-Romance Clitic Sequences -- 3. Typology of Italo-Romance Clitic Dissimilations -- 4. Other 'Morphological' Dissimilations in Italo-Romance -- 5. The Conditioning of Clitic Dissimilation -- REFERENCES -- OXYTONE INFINITIVES IN THE DIALECT OF PISA* -- 1. Oxytone Forms of the Infinitive -- 2. Method of Investigation -- 3. Truncated Infinitives and 'Rafforzamento Fonosintattico' -- 4. Restructuring -- 5. RF is Prosodically Constrained -- 6. Articles Beginning with /l-/ -- 7. Clitics -- 8. Degenerate Feet -- 9. Catalexis -- 10. Iambic Feet? -- REFERENCES -- SONORITY AND DERIVED CLUSTERSIN RAETO-ROMANCE AND GALLO-ITALIC -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. Structural Analyses -- 3. The OT Perspective -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- STRESS AND SCHWA IN FAETAR -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Background Phonological Information -- 2. Empirical Evidence of RS in Faetar -- 3. The Problem -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- VOWEL LENGTHENING IN MILANESE* -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Vowel Length Distribution in Milanese -- 2. Previous Analyses of Milanese Vowel Lengthening: The Role of Weightand Sonority -- 3. Vowel Lengthening in Milanese: An Optimality Approach -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- UNEVEN OR MORAIC TROCHEES?EVIDENCE FROM EMILIAN AND ROMAGNOL DIALECTS* -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Phonological Processes and the Uneven Trochee -- 2. Epenthesis and the Metrical Template -- 3. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- INDEX OF NAMES -- INDEX OF TERMS & CONCEPTS.