Spontaneous speech and local stereotypes

Sardinian spoken in Cagliari

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present a sociophonetic research based on spontaneous speech of Cagliari Sardinian. In particular, thanks to this kind of data elicited by means of semi-structured ethnographic interviews, it has been possible to study a local sterotype, the palatalization of /k, ɡ/ in front of /a/, e.g. cani ['kj ani] ‘dog’, gatu ['ɡj attu] ‘cat’. The stylistic analysis allowed to explore the social meanings of the different variants of the variable under investigation, identified during the acoustic analysis