Aspirated voiceless stops in elderly speakers from Calabria: a pilot study
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2018/09/0008/000341Keywords:
voiceless stops, VOT, Calabrian varietiesAbstract
The aim of this preliminary study is to sketch an initial description of Voice Onset Time (VOT) realizations in elderly speakers from the province of Catanzaro (central Calabria, a southern region of Italy), to be compared in the near future with data from the Italian-Argentinean community. Thus, the present work represents the starting point of a broader research project aimed at exploring possible cases of phonetic attrition in the VOT values of Calabrian migrants in Argentina. Focusing on elderly speakers, the production of the voiceless stop consonants /p, t, k/ will be analyzed within different linguistic contexts. Long-lag VOT values are expected, especially when compared to those of adolescent speakers from the same province.
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