New perspectives on vocalic lengthening in northern italian

• Autor: Ravarotto, Antinea
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2025
• Institución: Academia Peruana de la Lengua
• Repositorio: Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.revistas.apl.org.pe:article/1364
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.apl.org.pe/index.php/boletinapl/article/view/1364
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: phonetics; phonology; vowel lengthening; standard Italian; Milanese; fonética; fonología; alargamiento vocálico; italiano estándar; milanés

Vowel lengthening is a distinctive feature of Italian that has not yet been widely studied. Although a possible pattern of behavior has been developed for the standard variant of the language, many of the regio­nal variants have not yet been analyzed. In this paper, we have focused on the northern variant, specifically from the Milanese area, to corroborate whether the general rule of the standard language applies to vowel lengthening (Prada, 2010). With this in mind, we have digressed on this phenomenon in the Milanese dialect (Prieto, 2000), considering that, as Ga&owski (2001) points out, it could influence the variant of Italian spoken in this area. The outcome of this experimental study has revealed some interesting contradictions that show significant differences in vowel lengthening in the northern variant compared to stan­dard Italian, as well as a significant difference between speakers in the articulation of some vowels.