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L. Garrapa: Italian Vowel Deletion across Word Boundaries: Phonology or Morphology?
!" I assume a lexical phonological component separated from a post-lexical phonological
component (see Kiparsky, 1982). Moreover, within the postlexical phonological component, I
identify 3 independent submodules: (i) the prosodic submodule; (ii) the metrical and rhythmic
submodule; (iii) the postlexical-phonological operations submodule.
Figure 1: A Sketch of Modular OT
9.2 The Mental Lexicon
!" Following the evidence provided by recent psycholinguistic studies (see Schreuder & Baayen,
1995; Say & Clahsen, 2002; Baayen et al., 2002 and references cited therein), I assume that the
mental lexicon is partially redundant and allows storage as well as online computation.
!" The lexical items STORED in long-term memory can be smaller as well as larger than a
single word. As far as VD is concerned, I assume that at least the following lexical items are
stored:
a) Productive morphological affixes of gender/number/person/case, i.e. the following ones for Italian
pronouns, determiners, nouns and adjectives:
-o [mas & sing (& acc & 3 rd person)], -a [fem & sing (& acc & 3 rd person)],
-i [mas & plur (& acc & 3 rd person)], -e [fem & plur (& acc & 3 rd person)], etc ;
b) Fnc are listed in their whole paradigm:
!" singular determiners and inflected prepositions are listed as full forms as well as reduced
allomorphs, lo/a and l’, uno/una and un/un’, quello/a and quell’, questo/a and quest’;
!" plural determiners and inflected prepositions are listed only as full forms, gli, le, quegli,
quelle, questi/e, prep+gli/le;
!" singular and plural pronouns are listed only as full forms, lo/a/i/e, glielo/a/i/e, mi, ci, gli, le.
c) Frequently used stretches of speech, i.e.
determiners il/lo/l’ o uno/un + high-frequence masculine singular nouns;
determiners la/l’ o una/un’ + high-frequence femminine singular nouns;
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