Herbert Izzo: 1 book

Book cover of Tuscan and Etruscan

Tuscan and Etruscan

The problem of linguistic substratum influence in central Italy

by Herbert Izzo
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972

The Italian spoken in most of Tuscany is characterized by a number of peculiar pronunciations which for over half a century Romance scholars have explained by a theory of linguistic substratum influence. This theory postulates that present-day Tuscan pronunciation is a survival of the 'foreign accent'...
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