Connected speech processing (CSP) is of great significance to individuals' language and
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Italian has a length contrast in its series of voiced and voiceless obstruents while also
presenting phonetic differences across regional varieties. Northern varieties of the …

Previous studies report that Italian learners of German transfer their L1 prosody to their L2
when marking information status prosodically within noun phrases (NPs). However, these …

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 …

Accounts of phonological contrast traditionally invoke a binary distinction between
unpredictable lexically stored phonemes and contextually predictable allophones, whose …

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Apocope (deletion of word-final vowels) and word-final vowel reduction are hallmarks of
southern Italian varieties. To investigate whether heritage speakers reproduce the complex …

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

Apocope (deletion of word-final vowels) and word-final vowel reduction are hallmarks of
southern Italian varieties. To investigate whether heritage speakers reproduce the complex …

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