The vowel system of San Valentino in Abruzzo Citeriore

Diana Passino (1) , Diego Pescarini (1)

1 BCL, équipe Dialectologie et Linguistique formelle

This work focuses on the vowel system of the Italo-Romance dialect spoken in the village of San Valentino in Abruzzo Citeriore. Based on novel fieldwork data, the article describes the vowel system of Sanvalentinese from a phonetic and phonological point of view and accounts for a number of puzzling evolutions in the light of a reconstruction of previous stages of the dialect.

Mots clés: mobile diphthongs; vowel differentiation; Italian dialects; metaphony

Domaines: Linguistique

Diana Passino, Diego Pescarini. The vowel system of San Valentino in Abruzzo Citeriore. 2019. ⟨hal-01856704⟩