Summary and Conclusion

This study had two goals. The first goal was to evaluate and test the predictions of syllable-based analyses of Italian in three domains: 1) native speaker intuition of consonant cluster syllabification, 2) definite article allomorphy, and 3) segment duration. The second goal was to test the claimed convergence of multiple phenomena on the same syllable structure. This chapter first summarizes the main experimental findings in Section 5.1. The convergence argument is evaluated, in light of the experimental results, in Section 5.2.