How pervasive is preaspiration? Investigating sonorant devoicing in Sienese Italian [PDF]
, 2004 We have recently found that voiceless geminates in Sienese Italian are frequently preaspirated, eg. /sette/ > [sehte] 'seven'. Within the few (mostly Scandinavian) languages that are reported to have preaspirated voiceless stops, a phonetically similar ...
Stevens, Mary, Hajek, John
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Thinking as the others do: persistence and conformity of sexual double standard among young Italians
Genus, 2020 The double standard represents a standard of good behaviour that, unfairly, some people are expected to follow or achieve, but others are not. Once neglected by social scientists, the double standard in sexual attitudes has become more and more studied ...
Matteo Migheli, Chiara Pronzato
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Vowel duration, compression and lengthening in stressed syllables in Italian [PDF]
, 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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Body measurements and morphological evaluation of Italian Cane Corso
Italian Journal of Animal Science, 2011 Mastiff-like breeds are getting more and more popular due to their appearance and behaviour; within Italian breeds Cane Corso (CC), light mastiff-like type, is the one with the most positive entry trend in the last decade.
M. Polli +3 more
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A Typology of Spreading, Insertion and Deletion or What You Weren’t Told About Raddoppiamento Sintattico in Italian [PDF]
, 2002 This paper focuses on the description and analysis of the external sandhi phenomenon of raddoppiamento sintattico (hereafter RS) in Italian, sometimes referred to as word-initial gemination, for example: (1) No RS due cani [duùe kaùni] ‘two ...
Absalom, Matthew +5 more
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Isogloss, 2022 In this paper, I address the problem of auxiliary selection in Standard Italian and in Southern Italo-Romance varieties. In the former, the auxiliary depends on the argument structure, in the latter on the person feature of the subject.
Irene Amato
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The MetaOPAC Azalai Italiano (MAI): geography and evolution of Italian online catalogues [PDF]
, 2010 Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider and discuss some data about the evolution of Italian Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs) in the last decade and the possibility to search them cumulatively through the MetaOPAC Azalai Italiano (MAI).
De Robbio, Antonella +3 more
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Lexicalization and Social Meaning of the Italian Subjunctive
Cadernos de Linguística, 2022 The usage of the Italian subjunctive, particularly in the context of embedded completive clause, can be considered a normative linguistic stereotype par excellence, to which speakers should pay particular attention if they want to speak ‘properly ...
Salvio Digesto
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Standard and Neo-standard in mobile communities. The case of German-speaking Switzerland
, 2023 This paper seeks to address if restandardization dynamics unfold in a migratory setting. The study takes as a test case the double standard situation of contemporary Italian and aims to ascertain to which extent the linguistic repertoire of Italian ...
Natale, Silvia, Marzo, Stefania
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Speech Variation in the Teaching of Italian as a Second/Foreign Language: A Critical Review
LanguagesThis study analyses the variety of the language used in textbooks for teaching Italian as a second/foreign language. These books use a language much closer to written than to spoken Italian and do not consider its varieties, providing examples and ...
Luciano Romito, Elvira Graziano
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