A sociophonetic analysis of rhotic variation in Italian schoolchildren
This paper investigates the production of Italian rhotics in the speech of 75 schoolchildren (6-10 years old) in the area of Biella, in the North-West of Italy. As rhotics are subject to a high degree of variation in Italian, their distribution and phonetic realisations were taken into account to te...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:286476 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/286476 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/qdi.570 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Rhotics Italian Sociophonetic variation Phonological acquisition Child language Heritage languages Majority language Rotiche Italiano Variazione sociofonetica Acquisizione fonologica Lingua infantile Lingue ereditarie Lingua maggioritaria Ròtiques Italià Variació sociofonètica Adquisició fonològica Llenguatge infantil Llengues d'herència Llengua majoritària Róticas Variación sociolingüistica Adquisición fonológica Lenguaje infantil Lenguas de herencia Lengua mayoritaria |
| Sumario: | This paper investigates the production of Italian rhotics in the speech of 75 schoolchildren (6-10 years old) in the area of Biella, in the North-West of Italy. As rhotics are subject to a high degree of variation in Italian, their distribution and phonetic realisations were taken into account to test the influence of linguistic and sociolinguistic variables, i.e., phonological context, age and migratory background of the children's families. Results show that children's production varies across contexts and ages, as older subjects' patterns of variation seem to be approaching the distribution and the characteristics that would be expected in the target. Moreover, we propose that the migratory backgrounds and, in particular, the different Heritage Languages present in the children's repertoires, might be explanatory to the high degree of variability observed, e.g., in subjects of the same age. |
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