Descrizione acustica delle occlusive sorde aspirate

Analisi sociofonetica dell’italiano regionale di adolescenti calabresi

Abstract

This paper investigates the role of internal and external factors triggering aspiration of voiceless stops in the Regional Italian spoken by a group of adolescents from central Calabria. The results showed that variation in VOT duration has both phonetic and extra-linguistic explanations. The findings showed that aspiration is generally favoured in velar and poststress stops. At the same time, individual speakers show fine-grained differences in the realization of aspiration as a function of their social characteristics. In particular, a significant effect of the attitude towards schooling, with males with a negative attitude showing significantly longer VOT, was found.