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Dialectal Variation: an example from some Romance dialects Ling 203 10/1/2010

Veneto Teramo Foggiano Salentino Calvello Southern Umbro source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Languages_spoken_in_Italy.svg

Lena source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6b/Castillian_dialects_in_spain.png

Note on notational conventions V = vowel (with or without accent) V́ = accented vowel V [-accent] = unaccented vowel The rules generally ignore the low vowel [a].

Foggiano/Pugliese fem masc sing → plural 1sg. 2sg. V → [+high]

Veneto fem masc sing → plural 1sg. 2sg. V [+tense, -accent] → [+high, +front] V́ [+tense, -low] → [+high]

Southern Umbro fem masc sing → plural 1sg. 2sg. V [+tense] → [+high] V [-tense] → [+tense]

Salentino fem masc sing → plural 1sg. 2sg. V [+tense] → [+high] V́ 1 [-tense, α front] → V 0 [+high, α front, +tense] V́ 1 [+front]

Calvello fem masc sing → plural 1sg. 2sg. V [+tense, -accent, -low] → [+high, +front] V́ [+tense] → [+high] V́ 1 V 0 [+high, α front, +tense] V́ 1 [-tense, α front] → [+front, +tense]

Lena fem masc sing → plural 1sg. 2sg. V [-accent] → [+high] V́ [-low] → [+high] V́ [+low] → [mid]

Teramo fem masc sing → plural 1sg. 2sg. V [-accent] → [+high, +front] V́ → [+high, +tense] V [+low] → [+high, +front]

References All data from: Walker, Rachel. (2005 ). “Weak Triggers in Vowel Harmony.” Natural Language and Linguistic Theory , vol. 23, pp. 917-989.