DiatopIt: A Corpus of Social Media Posts for the Study of Diatopic Language Variation in Italy
, 2023 We introduce DiatopIt, the first corpus specifically focused on diatopic language variation in Italy for language varieties other than Standard Italian.
Alan Ramponi, Camilla Casula
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Preaspirated /pp tt kk/ in standard Italian [PDF]
, 2010 This paper investigates preaspiration of geminate stops in Standard Italian /pp tt kk/. We first compare voiceless stops produced in isolated words according to speaker sex and then region (Northern, Central and Southern Italy).
Tabain, M., Stevens, Mary, Hajek, John
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Vowel duration in stressed position in central & northern varieties of standard Italian [PDF]
, 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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Post-aspiration in standard Italian [PDF]
, 2010 Voiceless geminate stops in Italian are typically described as unaspirated in all positions (e.g. [1, 2]). However, recent acoustic phonetic analysis of part of a corpus of standard Italian speech data has shown that the geminate voiceless stops /pp tt ...
Stevens, Mary, Hajek, John
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Vowel duration, compression and lengthening in stressed syllables in Central and Southern varieties of standard Italian [PDF]
, 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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Institutional legacies in TNCs and their management through training academies: the case of transnational law firms in Italy [PDF]
, 2011 This paper highlights the effects of heterogeneous institutional contexts on transnational professional service firms, a relatively understudied issue.
Cook, Andrew +7 more
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How widespread is preaspiration in Italy? [PDF]
, 2010 Preaspiration is a comparatively rare phonetic feature, almost entirely confined to languages spoken in far northwestern Europe (Andersen 2002; Helgason 2002).
Stevens, Mary
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Attitudes of South Tyrolean University Students towards German Varieties
, 2021 This paper examines language attitudes of South Tyroleans towards German varieties used in educational institutions by means of a questionnaire survey with 55 university students.
Mara Maya Victoria Leonardi
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Slavic Alpine micro-varieties as part of an “Alpensprachbund”?
, 2021 This chapter deals with some characteristics of two more-or-less isolated Slavic varieties in the south-eastern Alps: Resian and Carinthian Slovene, whose nearest relative among the Slavic standard languages is Slovene.
Pila, Malinka
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Analysis of the main physical and chemical characteristics of the vine shoots of three vine varieties from Veneto (Italy) [PDF]
, 2022 In Italy, the agricultural residues resulting from the pruning of vineyards represent a potential energy Source, in particular for the Veneto region, which is the second Italian region by vineyard area.
Mencarelli, Alessio +2 more
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