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    Prosodic phonology and raddoppiamento sintattico: a re-evaluation
    ABSALOM, MATTHEW ; HAJEK, JOHN ( 2006)
    The phenomenon known as raddoppiamento sintattico (RS) in Italian has been used to justify the notion of the phonological phrase in prosodic phonology. However, careful consideration of the application of the theory itself as well as a number of empirical problems raised by other scholars do not support the notion that the phonological phrase is useful in describing RS.