In recent decades, the interest in speech sciences for casual conversations has increased,
and researchers have begun to investigate the characteristics of spontaneous and casual …

10 affricate dentali da parte degli italofoni nella città di Bolzano, capoluogo dell'Alto
Adige/Südtirol. Il lavoro presenta diversi elementi di innovatività legati in primo luogo alla …

The range of phonological variation in Italian is huge and it comprises a vast array of
processes both at the segmental and the prosodic level. The reasons for this variability must …

This paper investigates the phenomenon of phonetic reduction of the reformulation marker
cioè, a very frequent lexical item in spoken Italian. This word has attracted both scholarly …

Dieses Handbuch liefert einen Überblick über Beschaffenheit und soziolinguistische
Situation des Deutschen am Rande des geschlossenen deutschen Sprachgebietes in West …

The variety of Italian spoken in Bolzano (South Tyrol) represents a singular case in Italy,
because it is not the result of a long-term contact between standard and Italo-Romance …

This paper deals with the selection of morphosyntactic features in Italo-Romance. Firstly, a
brief overview will be provided of the language space between traditional dialects and the …

This chapter is organized into two main sections: the first, sociolinguistics of language,
encompasses linguistic variation within the Italo-Romance domain, and the second …

The paper argues for further development of models of koineization in a historical
perspective. The four processes inherent in koineization reported in Britain (2012a) are …

This paper aims at describing/r/allophony in Tyrolean as spoken in South Tyrol and at
determining whether it can be influenced by the long-term contact with Italian. The analysis …