STRUCTURAL FEATURES AND FREQUENCY CHARACTERISTICS OF SYLLABLES IN TUSCAN, NEAPOLITAN AND SICILIAN DIALECTS OF ITALIAN
the article presents the results of the study of the structure and functioning of syllables in three Italian dialects - Tuscan, Neapolitan and Sicilian. A conventional distance between the dialects is calculated on the basis of functional similarity of certain types of syllables. Syllable sonants and zero vowels are discovered. The connection between the structures of syllable initials and fi nals, being considered as the linguistic analog of the energy conservation principle, is fi gured out.