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ChatGPT-4 and Italian Dialects: Assessing Linguistic Competence

open access: yesUmanistica Digitale, 2023
The purpose of this study is to evaluate ChatGPT-4’s language proficiency in Italian dialects. At the outset, it is clarified what is meant by ‘language ability’ within the context of Large Language Models.
Silvia Lilli
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Expletive Subject Clitics in Northern Italo-Romance

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
This article examines the syntax of subject clitics in northern Italian dialects. Statistical analysis is performed on a sample of 350 dialects to show that the co-variation between syntactic variables is significant.
Diego Pescarini
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Il veneto dall’estero

open access: yesQuaderni Veneti, 2012
Lepschy concentrates his own remarks more on those elements associating «language» to «dialects» than on their being in contrast, because he is convinced of the fact that the opposition between the Italian language and dialects is an «illusory device»,
Lepschy, Giulio C.
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Vowel duration, compression and lengthening in stressed syllables in Italian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The focus of this study is on temporal organization, specifically of vowel duration, in stressed syllables in (standard) Italian. We investigate possible compression effects on the duration of stressed vowels according to wordposition (final, penult and ...
Webster, Georgia   +3 more
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Vowel duration, compression and lengthening in stressed syllables in Central and Southern varieties of standard Italian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This study is the first investigation of the effects of regional accent on temporal organization, specifically of vowel duration, in stressed syllables in standard Italian.
Stevens, Mary, Hajek, John
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Dialecte et culture régionale dans la réforme de l’école italienne en 1923

open access: yesLengas, 2018
The "Gentile" Reform, of 1923, has introduced for the first time in Italy the teaching of regional culture and dialect in elementary school. These new subjects, nevertheless, were part of the idealistic project of Giovanni Gentile and Giuseppe Lombardo ...
Maurizio Coppola
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Vowel duration in stressed position in central & northern varieties of standard Italian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
We report the results of a pilot study investigating the effect of 2 regional accents on stressed vowel duration according to word-position and syllable type in Central v. Northern accents of Standard Italian.
Lee, Wai-Sum, Stevens, Mary, Hajek, John
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Microvariation and Microparameters. Some Quantitative Remarks

open access: yesQuaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2019
This paper deals with the distribution of subject clitics in northern Italian dialects. Building on quantitative data, I argue that the observed microvariation cannot derive (only) from external linguistic factors such as contact, areal diffusion ...
Diego Pescarini
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ITALIAN DIALECT CLASSIFICATIONS

open access: yesDialectologia, 2022
This paper provides a historical overview and a critical analysis of Italian dialect classifications. After various empirically-based classifications proposed since the 14th century, five scientific classifications were formulated. Ascoli (1882/1885) adopted a genealogical classification, arranging Italian dialects in three macrogroups (Gallo-Italic ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Possessives, from Franco-Provençal and Occitan Systems to Contact Dialects in Apulia and Calabria

open access: yesLanguages, 2021
This article investigates the contact-induced reorganization of the possessive system in the Gallo-Romance dialects spoken from around the 12th century in the villages of Celle and Faeto in North Apulia and Guardia Piemontese in North-West Calabria ...
Benedetta Baldi, Leonardo Maria Savoia
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