ITA360H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Human Torpedo, Italian Grammar, Syntactic Gemination
25 Apr 2019
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Complimentary lengthening: process whereby the stressed vowel is lengthened in an open syllable before a single consonant. For example fato is long [f :-to] vs short fatto[f -t:] . When a vowel and consonant are adjacent one of the other can be long but not both. Syntactic doubling: process whereby the initial consonant of a word is doubled when preceded by certain words ending in a vowel. Regional variation: diversity and variability in language due to geographical or social factors. For example the different dialects in italy categorized by regions like northern. Variation outside of italy: a great example of variation outside of italy is a hybrid language called italiese that was born out of necessity for italian immigrants who settled in north america. Italiese is italiano and inglese and the words are nativized in predictable ways which follow the italian grammar structure. For example the word store was made masculine singular il storo in italiese.
