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Peer reviewedCravens, Thomas D.; Giannelli, Luciano – Language Variation and Change, 1995
Examines the social parameters of acceptance and spread of intervocalic spirantization of "/p/,/t/,/k/" in Tuscany to test the salience of gender and class. This sociolinguistic analysis of the interaction of three options provides a more precise understanding of the significance of gender and class as (co)-conditioners of variation and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Change Agents, Consonants, Data Collection
Peer reviewedNagy, Naomi; Reynolds, Bill – Language Variation and Change, 1997
Examines a pattern of end-of-word deletion in Faetar, a Francoprovencal dialect spoken in southern Italy, and considers synchronic variants. The article uses the word "deletion" as a synchronic description of the fact that speakers do not always phonetically produce everything in the input form. Optimality Theory accounts for such…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Foreign Countries, French
