Re: Status of Italian rising

Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> writes:

> > This is very interesting.  The Latin stressed vowel > diphthong rule that
> > happened in Spanish and Italian (&c.) is certainly active in Spanish.
...
> There are some dialects, however, that've leveled the paradigm, saying
> things like piensar.
Also in the opposite direction: |yo colo| instead of |yo cuelo| (from
|colar| "sieve". And the superlatives, which also showed this change,
have been regularized with the diphthongized form: nobody says
|fortísimo| but |fuertísimo|, |bonísimo| > |buenísimo|, etc.


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