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Europe: So Many Languages, So Many Cultures [PDF]

, 2011
The number of different languages in Europe by far exceeds the number of countries. All European countries have national languages, and in nearly all of them there are minority languages as well, whereas all major languages have dialects.
Steinhauer, H. (Hein)
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Indefinite DPs in the Gallo-Romance of Piedmont, in some Marginal Northern Italian Varieties and in Romansh

Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2023
This article investigates indefinite DPs in some Romance varieties spoken in border contexts between linguistic groups. Specifically, we will consider Occitan and Franco-Provençal varieties of western Piedmont, the western Ligurian dialects, the Lombard-
Leonardo Maria Savoia, Benedetta Baldi
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Native Language Identification on Text and Speech

, 2017
This paper presents an ensemble system combining the output of multiple SVM classifiers to native language identification (NLI). The system was submitted to the NLI Shared Task 2017 fusion track which featured students essays and spoken responses in form
Ciobanu, Alina Maria, Dinu, Liviu P., Zampieri, Marcos   +2 more
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Comparing voiced and voiceless geminates in Sienese Italian: what role does preaspiration play? [PDF]

, 2004
This paper compares the acoustic phonetic appearance of voiced & voiceless geminate stops in Sienese Italian. In our spontaneous speech data voiceless geminate stops are frequently preaspirated, which is an extremely rare phenomenon cross-linguistically.
Hajek, John, Stevens, Mary
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Language Attitudes among Second-Generation Arabic Speakers in Italy

Languages
This research explores the language attitudes of second-generation Arabic speakers in Italy, examining their perspectives on both Italian and Arabic. The study assesses these attitudes within the complex sociolinguistic environment of Arabic, which is ...
Ibraam Abdelsayed, Martina Bellinzona
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Vocali epentetiche in Lunigiana

Géolinguistique, 2013
In this work I tackle the description of the phonological process known as epenthesis in two geographically-related dialects spoken in Carrara (MS) and Pontremoli (MS).
Edoardo Cavirani
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‘TRAMONTARE’ NEI DIALETTI ITALIANI: UN “EXCURSUS” ONOMASIOLOGICO E MOTIVAZIONALE

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2020
‘Setting’ in Italian Dialects: an Onomasiological and Motivational Excursus. This study aims to identify and analyze the main lexotypes for the notion of ‘setting’ in Italian dialects.
Federica CUGNO
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Possessives with kinship terms in Italian and Italo-Romance dialects

Isogloss
This study investigates the acceptability of constructions containing third-person possessives combined with singular and plural kinship terms in adult bilectal speakers of Italian and different Italo-Romance varieties spoken in six different geographic
Francesca Volpato, Gianluca Lebani
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Variation in motion events: Theory and applications [PDF]

, 2012
This chapter analyses the role of intratypological and dialectal variation in the lexicalisation of motion events (Talmy 1991, 2000) and its application to second language acquisition.
Hijazo-Gascon, Alberto, Ibarretxe-Antuñano, I   +1 more
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Il clitico espletivo nell’occitano della Provincia di Cuneo

Géolinguistique
This study analyses, according to a qualitative rather than a quantitative model, the use of the expletive clitic la in the Occitan spoken in the province of Cuneo, considering various contexts that have been examined in previous studies of northern ...
Mattia Ravera, Nicola Duberti
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