Timeline for Pronunciation rule for -gia sound
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| Mar 2, 2020 at 11:23 | comment | added | egreg♦ | @DaG Each time I hear “l'italiano si scrive come si pronuncia” I get goosebumps. :-) The fact that “gi” can be a digraph like “ch” is not even mentioned in primary school. And the rules prescribe “giù” where there's no diphthong at all (not that I propose to remove the accent, of course), for uniformity with “più”. | |
| Feb 29, 2020 at 18:17 | vote | accept | Tony M | ||
| Feb 29, 2020 at 17:27 | comment | added | DaG | That's right, @TonyM, and be assured that occasionally even native speakers stumble on some rarer word. | |
| Feb 29, 2020 at 17:18 | comment | added | Tony M | You say there is no "rule" to know when the "i" in gia is pronounced UNLESS you already know how to place proper stress on Italian words. ("Unfortunately, there is no fixed rule...you have to check a dictionary"). I conclude that my original question has no answer for a non-native speaker. | |
| Feb 29, 2020 at 13:25 | comment | added | DaG | Unfortunately, there is no fixed rule (sometimes it has to do with the word's origin, but not reliably): that you have to check on a dictionary. There are similar words with different stress, or even the same word may have different meanings with different stresses: regìa (directing) and règia (feminine of regio, royal). | |
| Feb 29, 2020 at 12:52 | comment | added | Tony M | thank you, but I don't know the rule for when "i" is stressed. Is there a rule for this? | |
| Feb 29, 2020 at 12:43 | history | answered | DaG | CC BY-SA 4.0 |