The aim of this book is to broaden and deepen our understanding of the complex dynamics
underlying the development of “new standards” in many European languages, by zooming …

This chapter provides a critical overview of the sociolinguistic situation in Italy focusing on
the relationships between the standard language and the many Italo-Romance varieties that …

This study uses a generalized additive mixed-effects regression model to predict lexical
differences in Tuscan dialects with respect to standard Italian. We used lexical information …

This book explores the linguistic and cultural identities of Sicilians in Australia, through
conversations gathered within the family, survey data and interviews. The study is placed in …

Italian has a length contrast in its series of voiced and voiceless obstruents while also
presenting phonetic differences across regional varieties. Northern varieties of the …

This paper deals with the borrowing of the Italian reformulation marker cioè in the German
and Ladin linguistic minorities in Italy. A corpus of bi-and multilingual conversations is …

The recent implementation of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in the fifth
and final year of secondary schools in Italy carries with it a number of important implications …

This chapter provides an overview of the main topics concerning the restandardization
process of Italian. We will first discuss some general issues related to the Italian …

The use of Italian in Bozen/Bolzano could be considered as an exceptional case in the
Italian sociolinguistic landscape. The development of a variety of Italian results from an …

Adopting a mentalist approach to the study of language attitudes, social prestige and stigma,
as well as the values and stereotypes bestowed on Sardinian and Italian and their speakers …