What is it about?
The paper claims that present-day Italian exhibits no voice assimilation, and explains this by classifying it as a type of language closer to English and other Germanic languages ("aspiration languages") than its Romance relatives ("voice languages").
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Why is it important?
The paper establishes a novel language typology for binary laryngeal systems with reference to Element Theory (L-/H-/h-languages), and places Italian in it (h-language).
Perspectives
The language typology used was set up earlier (Balogné Bérces 2017) to harmonise the aspiration lang. - voice lang. bifurcation with Cyran's H-lang. - L-lang. typology, and accommodate English (and typical Germanic lang.'s) in it. The present paper is joint work with B. Huszthy to take care of Italian.
Katalin Balogné Bérces
Pazmany Peter Katolikus Egyetem
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This page is a summary of: Laryngeal Relativism predicts Italian, Yearbook of the Poznan Linguistic Meeting, December 2018, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.2478/yplm-2018-0007.
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