Description
Drawing on a dual expertise of rare intensity, Mirco Ghini's book is a major contribution to both Romance dialectology and phonological theory. It gives a comprehensive account of the segmental and metrical phonology of the Ligurian dialect of the village of Miogliola, North-west Italy. Based on the author's own fieldwork, it is the first in-depth study of this area, also tracing its development from Latin. Feature assignment, underspecification, and quantity alternations are most prominent among the general theoretical issues on which the particulars of Miogliola phonology, meticuously analysed, are brought to bear with elegance and force.
Chapter
1.3. Segment structure
pp.：
32 – 47
2. Status of underspecification in phonology
pp.：
47 – 50
2.1. McCarthy and Taub (1992)
pp.：
50 – 60
2.2. Steriade (1995)
pp.：
60 – 68
2.3. Underspecification and psycholinguistics
pp.：
68 – 73
3. Summary of the chapter
pp.：
73 – 75
Chapter 2. An overview of the Miogliola consonants
pp.：
75 – 76
1. Surface consonants
pp.：
76 – 77
2. Underlying consonants
pp.：
77 – 78
3. The glides
pp.：
78 – 82
4. The ghost consonants
pp.：
82 – 95
5. The nasal [g]
pp.：
95 – 95
5.1. [ŋ
] as the fourth nasal phoneme
pp.：
95 – 98
5.2. [ŋ
] as the fifth placeless consonant
pp.：
98 – 100
5.3. The Default Variability Hypothesis (DVH): underlyingly placeless /N/, surface placeless [ŋ
]
pp.：
100 – 102
5.4. The other placeless segments and the DVH
pp.：
102 – 105
5.5. Representing non-alternating [n] as placeless, alternating [n/ŋ
] as dorsal
pp.：
105 – 106
5.6. [Dorsal] as the default feature?
pp.：
106 – 109
5.7. A full specification approach to Miogliola nasals
pp.：
109 – 114
6. Miogliola consonant inventory
pp.：
114 – 116
6.1. Rhotics as the unspecified sonorants: Pignasco
pp.：
116 – 120
7. Summary of the chapter
pp.：
120 – 123
1. Lengthening and non-lengthening consonants
pp.：
123 – 127
Chapter 3. Consonantal prosody and metrical structure
pp.：
123 – 123
2.1. Obligatorily heavy stressed penults (1): vowel lengthening
pp.：
127 – 129
2. On building metrical structure around stress
pp.：
127 – 127
2.2. Obligatorily heavy stressed penults (2): ambisyllabicity
pp.：
129 – 130
2.3. The well-formedness of light stressed antepenults
pp.：
130 – 132
2.4. The building of a moraic trochee
pp.：
132 – 133
2.5. Stressed penults as heads of a moraic trochee
pp.：
133 – 136
2.6. Final stress and the rhyme as a constituent
pp.：
136 – 139
2.7. Stressed antepenults as heads of a moraic trochee
pp.：
139 – 142
3. On deriving stress
pp.：
142 – 144
3.1.Stress assignment
pp.：
144 – 146
3.2. Lexical stress
pp.：
146 – 147
3.3. Mora keeping versus mora losing consonants
pp.：
147 – 152
3.4. Overview of the metrical system
pp.：
152 – 155
4. The status of penultimate stress
pp.：
155 – 156
4.1. Romance Stress
pp.：
156 – 162
4.2. Italian
pp.：
162 – 163
4.3. Spanish
pp.：
163 – 164
4.4. The evolution of penultimate stress from Latin
pp.：
164 – 165
5. Summary of the chapter
pp.：
165 – 169
Chapter 4. Vowel patterns before /N/
pp.：
169 – 169
1. The vowel inventory before /N/
pp.：
169 – 174
2. The lengthening before intervocalic /N/
pp.：
174 – 178
3. Ambisyllabicity, not VC.V-syllabification
pp.：
178 – 180
4. Vowel patterns before /N/ in stressed antepenults
pp.：
180 – 183
5. Unstressed vowels before /N/
pp.：
183 – 186
6. Genovese /N/
pp.：
186 – 194
7. Summary of the chapter
pp.：
194 – 197
1.1. Vowels in stressed position
pp.：
197 – 201
1. Vowel inventories
pp.：
197 – 197
Chapter 5. An overview of the vowel system in Miogliola
pp.：
197 – 197
1.2. Reduced vowel inventories
pp.：
201 – 204
2. Vowel feature specification
pp.：
204 – 205
2.1. The short vowels
pp.：
205 – 210
2.2. The long vowels
pp.：
210 – 211
2.3. Accounting for the reduced inventories
pp.：
211 – 223
3. Summary of the chapter
pp.：
223 – 227
1. Allophonic distribution of the vowel /α
/
pp.：
227 – 229
Chapter 6. The dorsal vowel /α
/
pp.：
227 – 227
2. The vowel /α
/ before the lengthening consonants
pp.：
229 – 234
3. The vowel /α
/ before the non-lengthening consonants
pp.：
234 – 238
4. The whole picture
pp.：
238 – 241
5. Summary of the chapter
pp.：
241 – 243
Conclusions
pp.：
243 – 247
References
pp.：
249 – 257
Word index
pp.：
257 – 278
Subject index
pp.：
278 – 281
Language index
pp.：
281 – 282
Author index
pp.：
282 – 285
Asymmetries in the Phonology of Miogliola
( Studies in Generative Grammar SGG )
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