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Dialectal variation and perceptual dialectology: a case of study in the Western Piedmont (Italy)

Silvia Gally

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For this poster session, I will focus on two dialects of the area, a Piemontese(gallo-italic) one, an Occitan (gallo-romance) one and their vowel systems.Especially, I will show and compare two groups of descriptive data. The firstone, made up in a historical (diachronical) perspective by analyzing two importantcollections of dialectological and lexical data, for instance the LinguisticAtlas of Italy (Atlante Linguistico Italiano, ALI) and the Linguistic and EthnographicAtlas of Western Piedmont (Atlante Linguistico ed Etnografico delPiemonte Occidentale, ALEPO). The second group, constructed with acousticaldata I gathered in the field, with a sociophonetic approach and surveys(Di Paolo & Yaeger-Dror, 2011). In this way, I selected 6 informants per locality(3 men and 3 women) between 3 age ranges (18-30, 40-55, over 70 years old).The particularity of my study is to make an inventory of stressed and unstressedvowels per variety, by considering historical, geographical and socialreasons which have an impact to the structure and the dynamics of linguisticvariation in the area. Moreover, these varieties do not have benefited yet ofa recent and detailed acoustical description: I simply propose to do a vowelinventories.All these descriptive data (objective ones) are compared andconfronted with some perceptual data (subjective ones), in order to see if thespeakers’ representations of the linguistic environment in which they evolveand live - especially, perception of phonetic differences between dialects andperception of dialectal boundaries - are similar or different than their phoneticand linguistic realisations (Telmon, 2000; Dell’Aquila & Iannàccaro, 2001; `Iannàccaro, 2002; Léonard, 2003). ´This poster show how traditional descriptive dialectologycould benefit from a confrontation with other theoretical and methodologicalapproaches stemming from contiguous linguistic disciplines and domains(sociophonetics and perceptual dialectology), in order to examine and tounderstand the specific dynamics of linguistic variation of dialects.
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hal-01172659 , version 1 (07-07-2015)

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Silvia Gally. Dialectal variation and perceptual dialectology: a case of study in the Western Piedmont (Italy). Methods in Dialectology XV - The Future of Dialects, Aug 2014, Groningen, Netherlands. , 2014. ⟨hal-01172659⟩
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