Italian palatalization

In his Phonology of Italian, Krämer (2009:§4.2.1) is interested in the productivity of velar palatlization before /i/-initial suffixes, such as the masculine noun plural /-i/. Palatalization obtains in, for example, in amico-amici [aˈmiːko, aˈmiːtʃi] ‘friend(s)’, but not in cuoco-cuochi [ˈkwɔːko, ˈkwɔːki] `cook(s)’. Krämer (henceforth K) further claims that non-palatalization has much higher type…