Syntactic Doubling: Some Data on Tuscan Italian

摘要

The data of an experimental study on Syntactic Doubling (Raddoppiamento Sintattico (RS)) in Tuscan Italian are reported and discussed. (a) Consonant not subject to RS with consonant possibly subject to RS in adjacent stressed syllables; (b) with a phonological boundary intervening between trigger and target; and (c) with no phonological phrase boundary intervening are compared. We consistently find lengthening in (b) (short RS), but more lengthening in (c) (long RS). Our data indicate that (short) RS applies across phonological phrases. The publication of these data was motivated by the recent interest raised by the ESF-funded project Edisyn [1] on dialect syntax aiming, among the other goals, to investigate doubling phenomena in European languages and dialects for cross-linguistic comparisons.