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  • Tue
    09
    Dec
    2025

    Gina Saviano (Ghent University) – "Mapping the Regional Linguistic Space between Italian and Dialect: A Computational Analysis of Phonetic Features in Neapolitan"

    11:00 amBlandijn, Faculteitszaal

    Abstract

    “Continuum con addensamenti”, ‘continuum with agglomerations’: this is how Berruto once described the Italian linguistic repertoire. Much has been discussed about the extremes of this continuum; however, little do we know about those intermediate “agglomerations”. How many are there? How are they organized? Do they share features? To address these questions, we adopt a phonetic perspective and borrow a technique typically used in commercial profiling. Examining established Neapolitan phonetic features alongside new prosodic parameters, we identify possible speaker profiles and features agglomerations, shedding a new light on the intermediate varieties of the Italian standard-dialect continuum. In this talk, I will discuss preliminary studies and findings, applying this innovative methodology to offer new insights into the nature of the concept of variety.

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Past events

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  • Mon
    29
    Apr
    2019

    IV Cambridge-Ghent Colloquium on the Histories of the Ibero-Romance Languages

    2:30 pmGrote Vergaderzaal (Blandijnberg 2, 3rd floor)

    Programme:

    • 14:30-15:30 Plenary Talk - Manuel Leonetti Complutense University of Madrid: 'Orden de palabras y estructura informativa en la evolución del español'
    • 15:30-16:00 Miriam Bouzouita & Antoine Primerano Ghent University: 'La influencia oriental en la gramaticalización del futuro y condicional en español'
    • 16:00-16:30 Rocío Díaz Bravo & Miriam Bouzouita University of Granada & Ghent University: 'Usos innovadores de los clíticos de OD y OI en el Retrato de la Loçana andaluza'
    • 16:30-17:00 COFFEE
    • 17:00-17:30 Plenary Talk - Javier Rodríguez Molina University of Granada / Ghent University: 'Alomorfia IE - IA en los pluscuamperfectos de indicativo medievales'
    • 17:30-18:00 Montserrat Batllori & Ioanna Sitaridou University of Girona & University of Cambridge: 'Fronting in the history of Spanish'
    • 18:00-18:30 Álvaro Octavio de Toledo y Huerta Autonomous University of Madrid / Ghent University: 'Dislocaciones y doblados: elementos para un álgebra de los objetos clíticos en el primer español moderno'
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