The document summarizes the phonological restrictions of the Italian language. It outlines the consonant and vowel phonemes, including plosives, affricates, nasals, trills, and fricatives. It also describes diphthongs and permissible consonant clusters in onsets and codas. Key restrictions include disallowing a nasal consonant as the first element of a geminate cluster and only permitting /n/, /r/, and /l/ as coda liquids.
The document summarizes the phonological restrictions of the Italian language. It outlines the consonant and vowel phonemes, including plosives, affricates, nasals, trills, and fricatives. It also describes diphthongs and permissible consonant clusters in onsets and codas. Key restrictions include disallowing a nasal consonant as the first element of a geminate cluster and only permitting /n/, /r/, and /l/ as coda liquids.
The document summarizes the phonological restrictions of the Italian language. It outlines the consonant and vowel phonemes, including plosives, affricates, nasals, trills, and fricatives. It also describes diphthongs and permissible consonant clusters in onsets and codas. Key restrictions include disallowing a nasal consonant as the first element of a geminate cluster and only permitting /n/, /r/, and /l/ as coda liquids.
The document summarizes the phonological restrictions of the Italian language. It outlines the consonant and vowel phonemes, including plosives, affricates, nasals, trills, and fricatives. It also describes diphthongs and permissible consonant clusters in onsets and codas. Key restrictions include disallowing a nasal consonant as the first element of a geminate cluster and only permitting /n/, /r/, and /l/ as coda liquids.
Consonant Phonemes Post- Bilabial Labiodental Dental Alveolar Palatal Velar Alveolar Plosive p b t d K g Affricate ts͡ d͡z t͡ʃ d͡ʒ Nasal m n ɲ Trill r Fricative f v s (z) ʃ
Lateral l ʎ approximant
Phonemes Vowels Dipthongs
Front Central Back
p-b-t-d-k-g-n- m-ɱ-ɳ-ɲ-r-f-v- ai-ie-ia-io-iu-ua-ue-uo s-l-ʃ-ʎ-K-g-t͡ʃ-t͡s- e-ɛ-i a o-ɔ-u d͡ʒ-dz͡ -
Clusters Onset Coda
cc Pn - pr - pj - pl - *The first element of any br - bj - bl -bw - geminate,. e.g. tutto sf - zv - zd͡ʒ - f v - fr - fv - vr - vt - fj - fw - vj tr - tz - ts -dr -ds -vw - sj - sw - zj -zw - pn - ps * A nasal consonant that is - gr -gj -gl - fr - either /n/ * Liquid fj -fw - vr - vj - ccc consonants /r/ and /l/ E.g. per ('for'), vl - vw - sk -sj - sf - sr - fr - sp - sk - sl - zr -zbl - fv+(r/j) - fw - vw - spr - skl
