This book provides an overview of the phonology of Italian. It
covers the different levels of analysis from individual sounds up
to the phrasal level. It focuses on the most widely dispersed
features of the language reflecting its significant regional and
social variation and its most prominent regionally restricted
patterns.
Martin Kramer provides a critical survey of the generative
literature on Italian phonology. He reports on current debates in
the field, considers their particular and general theoretical
interest, and provides both syntheses and original analyses. His
accounts of the main aspects and characteristics of Italian
phonology are couched in the framework of Optimality Theory, but he
keeps formal aspects and theory-internal matters to a minimum and
separate from the presentation and description of the data. His
exposition is thus fully accessible to students and researchers who
are not familiar with or do not subscribe to the tenets of the
theory. Individual chapters may thus serve as starting points for
in-depth investigations into particular aspects of Italian
phonology in whatever framework the reader chooses to employ.
The Phonology of Italian is the first fully comprehensive account
of its subject for many years. It will interest scholars and
advanced students of Italian, Romance phonology, and phonology as a
system.
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