An acoustic study of Sallentine retroflex sounds (Apulia, southern Italy). (Poster)

Angelica Costagliola (1, 2)

1 LPP - LPP - Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie - UMR 7018
2 CRIL - Centro di Ricerca Interdisciplinare sul Linguaggio

This paper aims to give a preliminary acoustic description of Sallentine retroflex/cacuminal sounds. Sallentine is a Romance dialect spoken, with regional Italian, in the Salento sub-region, situated in Apulia, the “heel” of Italy. It presents the so-called “retroflex” or “cacuminal” sounds derived from the Latin lateral geminate -LL-. Retroflexion/cacuminalization occurs also in the realization of the following consonant clusters -tr-, -ttr-, -ntr-, -ndr-, (-str-), (-dr-). Based on our acoustic study on 3 Sallentine male speakers'utterances of -LL- reflexes and consonant cluster -tr-, we could conclude that the first segments are geminate and semi-affricative and the second are semi-long and affricative and both are alveo-dental and cacuminal. Waiting for a more detailed articulatory analysis to be able to verify our conclusions, we propose for the moment the following IPA transcription: [d:þàzà] for -LL- reflexes and [ tàþsà] for consonant cluster -tr-.

Mots clés: Sallentine; retroflexion; Romance dialect; variation

Domaines: Linguistique

Angelica Costagliola. An acoustic study of Sallentine retroflex sounds (Apulia, southern Italy). (Poster). Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia (PaPI) 2007, Jun 2007, Braga, Portugal. ⟨halshs-00161879⟩