Re: Status of Italian rising
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 11, 2002, 0:48 |
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Joseph Fatula wrote:
> 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)
There are some dialects, however, that've leveled the paradigm, saying
things like piensar.
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