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Madmen's Voices: Discovering Former Psychiatric Hospitals via Mobile Application
No full textThe aim of this paper is to present the realization of a mobile application as a support to the visit to the former psychiatric hospitals in the cities of Siena and Arezzo, in Tuscany, Italy. Due to the unique nature of the place to be recounted, the design phase of the application has paid special attention to the definition of the multimedia material to be provided to the users: Through the use of oral sources, i.e. interviews with the former hospital employees collected over the last 15 years, the app tries to implement the paradigm of Augmented Cultural Heritage, enriching the visit to a Tangible Cultural Site-The hospital-with additional Intangible Cultural Assets, in this case the narrations made by the people who experienced in first person the life inside a psychiatric hospital
"Sarebbe bello poter raccontare...". Un mosaico di voci per non dimenticare la storia della propria comunità
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Tuscan between standard and vernacular: a sociophonetic perspective
No full textIn most parts of Tuscany there is a particular configuration of the linguistic repertoire and the traditional opposition between standard language vs. dialects is lacking, being the Florentine dialect at the origin of the Italian language. Code-switching is totally absent from the linguistic production of Tuscan speakers, whose speech is highly mixed up, with occurrences of several dialectal features also in formal contexts. The paper explores the relationship between standard and vernacular in Tuscany and may be considered also as a state-of-the art both on the production and the perception side, offering an update picture of the classical studies written by Luciano Giannelli in the seventies and in the eighties. In the first part, a picture of the most relevant variables occurring at the phonetic level is presented, with a particular attention to the consonantal weakening (the so-called “Gorgia Toscana”), the s-affrication, the stressed vowel systems, the raddoppiamento sintattico. Some acoustic data are discussed in order to find out the main loci of variation and the dialectal features showing a diffusion process inside the region, especially among young speakers. In the second part, some perceptual data elicited by means of the verbal-guise technique are presented, in order to evaluate how the Florentine pronunciation is perceived. Although at the supra-regional level the prestige of Florentine pronunciation is declining, it still endures inside the region; on the other hand, other sub-regional pronunciations enjoy some sort of covert prestige which may be partly responsible for the spreading of some local phonetic features
"New parameters for the sociophonetic indexes. Evidence from the Tuscan varieties of Italian"
No full textA sociophonetic analysis of the main phonological processes occurring in Tuscan Italian is presented within a global proposal of a new, original set of parameters of variation. After a general discussion on the sociophonetic indexes and the illustration of phonological processes occurring in the local pronuncia- tion of Italian, the parameters of the new model are metaphorically identified
as properties of solids, i.e. shape, size, thickness and weight. In the last section of the paper, the sociophonetic parameters proposed are compared with the socially-marked variables proposed by Labov (2001), showing analogies and differences. The advantages derivable from the model proposed are finally dis- cussed, with the explicit acknowledgement of the need for the inspection of the phonological system in sociophonetic analysis
Proceedings of “Sociophonetics, at the crossroads of speech variation, processing and communication”
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