What does the symbol r mean when it is used in a transcription? Here we analyze the use of
the symbols for the alveolar trills (r) and taps () among the Illustrations of the IPA since 1971 …

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 …

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

Across languages of the world the/r/sound is known for its variability. This variability has
been investigated using articulatory models as well as in sociolinguistic studies. The current …

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

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 …

Obwohl die Alpen ungefähr 40 Prozent der Gesamtfläche des Landes ausmachen und die
Siedlungsflächen insgesamt nur 7, 5 Prozent beanspruchen, ist die Schweiz mit 204 …

The present paper deals with methodological aspects of Italian quantitative sociolinguistic
research. It discusses a number of projects, showing the increasing vitality of this approach …