Re: Status of Italian rising

> Also see that the condition "in
> open _stressed_ syllables" is not valid anymore: until the first half of
> this century grammars recomended to shift _uo_ to _o_ when it happened to
> lose stress: _suono_ ['swOno] "I play", but _sonare_ [so'nare]. Everybody
> says [swo'nare], nowadays, thou'.
This is very interesting.  The Latin stressed vowel > diphthong rule that
happened in Spanish and Italian (&c.) is certainly active in Spanish.  Cf.
pensár, piénso, pensámos.  (to think, I think, we think, accents added to
make stress obvious)

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