Comparing dialectal and Italian prosody: the case of Venetian: The case of Venetian

Claudia Crocco; Barbara Gili Fivela; Giuseppe Magistro

doi:10.17469/O2109AISV000003

Authors

Claudia Crocco Dipartimento di Linguistica, Università di Gand, Belgio https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1099-956X
Barbara Gili Fivela Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università del Salento, Italia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4694-8652
Giuseppe Magistro Dipartimento di Linguistica, Università di Gand, Belgio https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0272-741X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17469/O2109AISV000003

Keywords:

contact, rhythm, vanishing “l”, “elle evanescente”

Abstract

The following paper aims at setting out a novel methodology in the prosodic comparison between two varieties in contact, the dialect spoken in Venice and the regional Italian spoken in Venice. By deploying a reading task, we compare the rhythmical properties of the two systems and review different metrics. We show that speakers can switch their metrical organization when switching language, but this is sensitive to those segmental processes which differentiate the two systems in contact.