Style and addressees in the selection of dialectal vs. standard phonetic forms

This study is about the production of singleton and geminate rhotics by young adult Sicilian speakers, whose native languages are Italian and a Sicilian dialect, during speech interactions with different interlocutors. As in many other languages, /r/ works as a sociolinguistic variable in the Sicili...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Meluzzi, Chiara|||0000-0002-2291-006X, Celata, Chiara
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:233535
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/233535
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/qdi.480
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Dinamiche standard/dialetto
Rotiche
Italiano
Siciliano
Stile di elocuzione
Accomodazione
Standard/dialect dynamics
Rhotics
Italian
Sicilian
Speech style
Speech accommodation
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Sumario:This study is about the production of singleton and geminate rhotics by young adult Sicilian speakers, whose native languages are Italian and a Sicilian dialect, during speech interactions with different interlocutors. As in many other languages, /r/ works as a sociolinguistic variable in the Sicilian area, conveying social and geographical information about the speaker. We will show that it also conveys information about the communicative and interactional dynamics with peers speaking either Italian or Sicilian dialects. We propose that in the process of selecting the relevant variants of the /r/ variable, the speakers are guided by the socio-communicative context and the phenomena of mutual convergence between interlocutors.