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| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4670 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes  Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 17 of 17 12 February 2013 at 7:51am | IP Logged |
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It's easy to identify Italian accents/dialects,
different pronunciation of vowels and consonants and speech melody is evident, even when Italians read the same (newspaper) article aloud: for example: 1) ventitrè, perchè, témpo, tréno, corréndo, ragno [ra:ño], a Milano [ami'lano], qualsiasi [kwal'ziazi] sound very Northern (especially Lombard) (standard: ventitré, perché, tèmpo, trèno, corrèndo, ragno ['rañño], a Milano [ammi'lano], [kwalsiasi]) 2) cocacola [hOhahOla], tsio [tsio], lèttera , enórme sound very Tuscan (standard: co = ko; modern pronunciation [dzio'; tsio is traditional]. léttera is used outside Tuscany, so is enòrme 3) [ ʃ] as pronunciation of /ʧ/ is used in Tuscany, and the rest of Central Italy, and in vast areas of the South: pece, pesce standard: ['peʧe, 'peʃʃe] (according to Canepari) Central+Southern : ['peʃe, 'peʃʃe] Nothern: : ['pe:ʧe, 'pe:ʃe] (in the North ʃ and ñ are not geminated) 4) in Rome and the South, many single consonants are pronounced as doppie, intervocalic stops are (partly) voiced: amico [amigo, amiγo], intervocalic S tends to stay voiceless: così [ko'si] 5) in the South: open, Spanish-like vowels: Romans don't like it at all when Southerners come to Rome and pronounce Róma with an open vowel: Ròma. As for intonation, the stereotypical Italian intonation is not neutral but Napolitan (it's used by speakers of other languages when they try to put an Italian accent; and it is also the intonation of Argentinian/Porteño Spanish); the neutral intonation of Italian is different, see here: http://tinilink.com/UmTJ2D5 And there's a Venetian intonation (cadènza veneziana), even when Venetians take córso di dizione and correct their segmental phonology and phonetics, they find it difficult to abandon their strong Venetian intonation. (Cadènza veneziana is frequently used for humor effect on Italian TV).  Edited by Medulin on 12 February 2013 at 8:17am 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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