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    Default Raddoppiamento fono-sintattico

    Il raddoppiamento fono-sintattico è quel fenomeno linguistico per cui a nord della Toscana diciamo a volte, va bene, e certo, sta bene ecc. mentre dalla Toscana in giù diciamo avvolte, vabbene, eccerto, stabbene ecc. Sono giunto alla conclusione che questo è il discriminante fondamentale tra "nord" e resto del paese quando si tratta di individuare la provenienza o giudicare la cultura di una persona. Ho provato a interrogare socraticamente mio padre su cosa fosse nord e cosa non fosse nord, su cosa distinguesse un parlante del nord da uno non del nord e ho avuto la sensazione che concordasse con me su questo punto. Si tenga presente che mio padre è un ingegnere della vecchia guardia quindi tende a non capire un cazzo di questioni antropologiche-umanistiche o comunque a razionalizzarle in modo cosciente.
    P.S: se qualcuno è ingegnere è si sente offeso dallo stereotipo, mi spiace.

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    This is interesting, what could be a reason that one part of cuontry uses double vowels so much?

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    I don't think it's due to the Greek substratum because Greeks don't seem to have a particular tendency to double consonants but rather to not pronounce them. So my guess is that it was a Roman thing, likely from the late stage empire. It's comparable in importance to the difference in rhotacism between American English and British English. Just like you can tell a British apart from an American from the way they pronounce the letter -r, you can tell a North Itaian from a Central-Southern one by the way they use or rather not use syntax doubling.

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    If It's comparable in importance to the difference in rhotacism between American English and British English, it's quite recent.

    Many lingustic phenomena are more recent than is generally believed; it is a common belief that they may date back to the pre-Roman linguistic situation; the nineteenth-century theory of Pre-Roman substrates in Italian dialects and languages has never been proven.

    In any case, the most common thesis among linguists is that raddoppiamento fonosintattico (syntactic gemination) is a residual phenomenon of the assimilation of Latin final consonants, or a legacy of Vulgar Latin at the time of the formation of Italian. Greek has nothing to do with it. Interestingly, in addition to Italy it is also present in Finnish.

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