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L. Garrapa: Italian Vowel Deletion across Word Boundaries: Phonology or Morphology?
(37b) lo évito Max-WI
‘I avoid him’
Max-MF Frequency Real-Morph Metr-StrF Max-IO *Lapse Onset
! (i) lo.é.vi.to *
(ii) lé.vi.to * * *
(iii) ló.vi.to *!
(37c) mi amáva
‘He/She loved me’
Max-
WI
Max-MF Frequency Real-Morph Metr-StrF Max-IO *Lapse Onset
! (i) mi.a.má.va * *
(ii) ma.má.va * *
(iii) mi.má.va *!
(37d) mi áma
‘He/She loves me’
Max-WI Max-MF Frequency Real-Morph Metr-StrF Max-IO *Lapse Onset
! (i) mi.á.ma *
(ii) má.ma * * *
(iii) mi.ma *!
(37e) Lo ha pérso
‘He/She has lost
it’’
Max-WI Max-MF Frequency Real-Morph Metr-StrF Max-IO *Lapse Onset
(i) lo.a.pér.so * *
! (ii) la.pér.so *
(iii) lo.pér.so *!
!" The constraint ranking in (36) predicts the correct output in 82% xxxii of the occurrences and
accounts for:
!" lo/a/i/e and glielo/a/i/e whose V1 tend not to undergo VE when followed by a lexical verb
(87%);
!" lo/a, glielo/a whose V1 undergo VE optionally but frequently when followed by the auxiliary
verb avere and the past participle of a lexical verb (78%);
!" li/e, glieli/e whose V1 undergo VE optionally but not frequently when followed by the
auxiliary verb avere and the past participle of a lexical verb (38%);
!" mi, ci whose V1 tend not to undergo VE when followed by a lexical verb (92%);
!"gli, le whose V1 never undergo VE when followed by a lexical verb (100%).
11. Conclusions
!" Various morphological and phonological factors as well as frequency effects militate for or
against the application of Italian VD.
!" VD applying to Italian determiners is clearly to be regarded as allomorphy conditioned
morphologically and phonologically. It is a lexical phenomenon which takes place within the
Mental Lexicon and also involves the Lexical Phonology/Morphology interface.
!" VD applying to Italian pronouns is an optional, postlexical phenomenon which is likely to take
place during the Postlexical Phonology / Morphology Interface. We can distinguish between:
a) Optional and frequent VD, conditioned morphologically and phonologically, which
applies frequently to the direct object pronouns followed by the auxiliary verb avere plus the
past participle of a lexical verb
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