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Prosodic accuracy and foreign accent in cultural migrants
No full textThe present study examines the relationship between language learning motivation and prosodic accuracy in L2 Italian speakers. 4 Romanians and 4 Arabs are selected among cultural migrants living in Italy. Each L1 group includes learners with moderate and high motivational indexes, 2 inexperienced and 2 experienced
speakers (indexed by length of residence). Non-native subjects’ prosodic accuracy is assessed on 4 declarative sentences in Italian, through acoustic measurements and a perception test. The same sentences are produced by 4 native Italians, acting as a control group. Preliminary results suggest a possible correlation among prosodic accuracy, motivation indexes and LOR levels
Italian vowel production by Arabic speakers
No full textThis research wants to explore the production of Italian L2 vowels by native Arabic adult speakers living in Italy. It focuses, moreover, on the weight exerted by motivation on L2 speech. Accuracy in Italian L2 production is tested on two vowel oppositions, /i e/ and /o u/. First, with the purpose of judging the magnitude of spectral differences produced between /i e/ and /o u/, Euclidean distances between each opposition are calculated and compared, both for the Arabic speakers and an Italian control group. Then, spectral distances between Italian L1 and L2 B1-B0 and B3-B2 values are computed and examined in correlation with Arabic speakers’ motivational indexes
CONTATTO TRA ITALIANO E SPAGNOLO IN CONTESTO MIGRATORIO: IL RUOLO DEI SEGNALI DISCORSIVI
Get PDFNegli ultimi anni, l’attenzione nei riguardi dei segnali discorsivi (da ora in avanti SD) ha inaugurato un filone di studi molto prolifico. L’importanza di questi segnali nella comunicazione orale è stata messa in evidenza da numerose ricerche che hanno indagato gli usi e le funzioni dei SD non solo nelle pratiche discorsive dei parlanti di una L1 (per l’italiano, cfr. Bazzanella, 1995; 2006; 2011) ma anche nel processo di acquisizione di una lingua seconda (cfr. Bardel, 2004; Jafrancesco, 2015; De Marco, 2016; Borreguero Zuloaga, De Marco, 2021), in ambito migratorio (cfr. De Fina, 2003; Scaglione, 2003; De Marco, 2017, 2018) e in generale in situazioni di contatto linguistico (cfr. Dal Negro, Fiorentini, 2016, 2017; Fiorentini, Sansò, 2016).
Il presente contributo si inserisce all’interno del filone di studi sulle lingue d’eredità culturale (heritage languages) con l’intento di analizzare le funzioni pragmatiche dei SD presenti nel parlato plurilingue di un campione di persone di origine calabrese emigrate in Argentina negli anni ’50
CONTATTO TRA ITALIANO E SPAGNOLO IN CONTESTO MIGRATORIO: IL RUOLO DEI SEGNALI DISCORSIVI
Get PDFIl presente lavoro propone un’indagine quali-quantitativa riguardante la funzione comunicativa dei segnali discorsivi (SD) presenti nel parlato di un gruppo italo-argentino di origine calabrese emigrato negli anni Cinquanta del secolo scorso. La ristrutturazione del loro repertorio plurilingue si manifesta in una pratica comunicativa caratterizzata da fenomeni di commutazione, enunciazione mistilingue, ricorso a prestiti e calchi che testimoniano un’erosione della lingua etnica (dialetti calabresi) e dell’italiano. Pertanto, si è ritenuto interessante verificare la resa dei SD nella produzione di quello che è stato definito il loro continuo linguistico di eredità ipotizzando che nella prassi comunicativa alcuni SD nelle varietà d’eredità culturale (italiano e dialetti) possano essere stati sostituiti o alternati con SD spagnoli con analoghe forme o funzioni. Lo studio mira dunque a verificare: a) in quali codici sono espressi i SD; b) quali funzioni questi ricoprono; c) quali sono i SD maggiormente oggetto di resa bilingue. I risultati mostrano una prevalenza globale di SD in lingua italiana e una interessante distribuzione funzionale dei SD sulla base del codice adottato con il frequente ricorso a SD del codice pragmaticamente dominante (lo spagnolo) nel caso di funzioni prevalentemente interazionali.
Italian-Spanish contact in a migratory context: the role of discourse markers
This paper proposes a qualitative and quantitative investigation on the communicative function of discourse markers (DMs) in the speech of an Italian-Argentinian group of Calabrian origin, who emigrated in the 1950s. The restructuring of their multilingual repertoire reflects itself in the communicative practice characterized by code-switching and mixing phenomena, as well as loanwords and calques, that testify some kind of erosion both of informants’ ethnic varieties (Calabrian dialects) and of Italian. Therefore, it was worth focusing on DMs renderings within their heritage linguistic continuum. It was hypothesized that in the communicative practices of our speakers, some Italian and dialectal DMs may have been replaced or alternated with Spanish DMs with similar forms or functions. The study aims at verifying: a) which DMs are expressed in which language; b) what function they have; c) which DMs are most subject to turn out in bilingual outcomes. The results show an overall prevalence of Italian DMs and a striking a functional distribution of DMs related to the language. In particular, the pragmatically dominant code (Spanish) considerably prevails in interactional DMs
Italian vowel production by Arabic speakers
No full textThis research wants to explore the production of Italian L2 vowels by native Arabic adult speakers living in Italy. It focuses, moreover, on the weight exerted by motivation on L2 speech. Accuracy in Italian L2 production is tested on two vowel oppositions, /i e/ and /o u/. First, with the purpose of judging the magnitude of spectral differences produced between /i e/ and /o u/, Euclidean distances between each opposition are calculated and compared, both for the Arabic speakers and an Italian control group. Then, spectral distances between Italian L1 and L2 B1-B0 and B3-B2 values are computed and examined in correlation with Arabic speakers’ motivational indexes
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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