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VM.CSATA.IT>A while ago I asked for references on Italian phonetics/phonology, with special emphasis on prosody. I wish to thank Mario Saltarelli, Pier Marco Bertinetto, Michael Picone, Christina Tortora, Lori Repetti and Christopher Cieri for their help. Here is the list of the books/articles suggested Saltarelli Mario (1970) "A Phonology of Italian in a Generative Grammar" (The Hague Mouton) (not specifically on prosody). Bertinetto Pier Marco (1981) "Strutture prosodiche dell'italiano" (Firenze Acca demia della Crusca). Nespor Marina & Vogel Irene (1986) "Prosodic Phonology" (Dordrecht Foris). Chierchia, Gennaro (1986) "Length, Syllabification, and the Phonological Cycle in Italian" Journal of Italian Linguistics 8: 5-33. den Os, E. A. (1984) "Extrametricality..." in van den Broecke and Cohen Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (Dordrecht Foris) 499-503. den Os and Kager (1986) "Extrametricality ..." Lingua 69: 23-48. Sluyters, W. (1990) "Length and Stress..." Probus 2: 65-102. Vogel and Scalise (1982) "Secondary Stress..." Lingua 58: 213-242. Wanner, Dieter (1973) "Is stress..." in Issues in Linguistics 875-896. A couple of papers by Lori Repetti have appeared most recently on Probus, Rivista di Linguistica and Italica. In relation more specifically to speech technology application, I can add at least two papers to the list Avesani C. (1990) "A contribution to the synthesis of Italian intonation", Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP '90), Kobe, Japan. Quazza S. (1991) "Modelling Italian intonation in a text-to-speech system", Eurospeech '91 Proceedings, Genova, Italy. Finally, I was sent by Christopher Cieri a sample from the MLA Bibliography. As it is a very big file (there are also many references on dialects), I will send a copy on individual request. Thank you again. Elina Savino University of Bari - ITALYMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue