Advances in Sociophonetics

134 Rosalind A. M. Temple Cruttenden, Alan. 2008. Gimson’s Pronunciation of English. London: Hodder. Docherty, Gerard J. 1992. T ...

Chapter 4. Where and what is (t,d)? 135 Myers, James. 1996. “The categorical and variable phonology of variable t-deletion in En ...

136 Rosalind A. M. Temple Temple, Rosalind A. M. Ms. “Rethinking (t,d): a new ‘new look’ at a variable construc[t]”. http:// htt ...

chapter 5 New parameters for the sociophonetic indexes Evidence from the Tuscan varieties of Italian Giovanna Marotta Università ...

138 Giovanna Marotta A great deal of modern sociolinguistic research is essentially sociophonetic, since the phonetic level of l ...

Chapter 5. New parameters for the sociophonetic indexes 139 fact for a long time. Nevertheless, the way in which the speaker/lis ...

140 Giovanna Marotta the acoustical signal have necessarily a corresponding perceptive value for the listener, although the soci ...

Chapter 5. New parameters for the sociophonetic indexes 141 a. the perception of the sociophonetic features by the speakers can ...

142 Giovanna Marotta A central feature of any sociolinguistic approach is the acknowledgement of the intrinsically dynamic natur ...

Chapter 5. New parameters for the sociophonetic indexes 143 with the other Romance languages: the contrast between C and C: exhi ...

144 Giovanna Marotta Other phonological processes occurring in Tuscany, such as the rhotacism of the lateral in pre-consonantal ...

Chapter 5. New parameters for the sociophonetic indexes 145 a section of space defined by its surface. In geometry, two major fe ...

146 Giovanna Marotta Before presenting our proposal, a synthetic list of the phonological processes which will be dealt with is ...

Chapter 5. New parameters for the sociophonetic indexes 147 In formal terms, using a rule-based framework, the gorgia has the fo ...

148 Giovanna Marotta function as a marker of gender and number in the case of noun declension and of person and number in the ca ...

Chapter 5. New parameters for the sociophonetic indexes 149 appears to be more morphologically-driven. By contrast, the phenomen ...

150 Giovanna Marotta sibilant gives rise to an affricate and Italian has a dental voiceless affricate as a phoneme, which can oc ...

Chapter 5. New parameters for the sociophonetic indexes 151 Nowadays, the process of near-merging of /s/ and /ts/ is indeed dyna ...

152 Giovanna Marotta the phenomenon appears to be gradual and continuous, as is often the case with many sociophonetic indexes. ...

Chapter 5. New parameters for the sociophonetic indexes 153 (15) /-re/ → Ø / _ ] Verb Infinite # Oxytone infinitives feed the pr ...