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Alphabet & Pronunciation

Italian alphabet, vowels, double consonants, c/g rules and stress
Fonologia: tratti distintivi
Phonology: distinctive features
feature matrices for Italian
Feature-based analysis of Italian phonemes
Il sistema delle sette vocali
The seven-vowel system
/i e ɛ a ɔ o u/
Open/closed mid vowels and their distribution
Raddoppiamento fonosintattico: analisi
Syntactic doubling: analysis
lexical and post-lexical triggers
Phonological conditioning of word-initial gemination
Struttura sillabica e fonotassi
Syllable structure and phonotactics
onset/coda constraints
Permissible syllable shapes in Italian
Accento: posizione e funzione
Stress: position and function
weight-sensitive stress
Stress assignment rules and lexical exceptions
Prosodia e struttura informativa
Prosody and information structure
nuclear stress and focus
Intonation marking topic and focus
Variazione diatopica
Geographic variation
northern, central, southern features
Major regional phonological differences
Fonologia storica: dal latino
Historical phonology: from Latin
lat. CL- → it. chi-; -CT- → -tt-
Sound changes from Latin to Italian
Lenizione e sonorizzazione
Lenition and voicing
intervocalic developments
Weakening processes in Italian's history and dialects
L'italiano regionale: fonetica
Regional Italian: phonetics
gorgia toscana, etc.
How regional substrates affect pronunciation