G. Abete, E. Milano, R. Sornicola (a cura di), Dialettologia e storia: problemi e prospettive, Centro di Studi Filologici e Linguistici Siciliani, 2021, 251-283., 2021
This article concerns the dynamics of linguistic conservation and innovation of the Neapolitan di... more This article concerns the dynamics of linguistic conservation and innovation of the Neapolitan dialect in semi-spontaneous speech data produced by a group of artisans in the Spanish Quarter of the historic center of Naples. The research perspective is sociolinguistic and concerns a contemporary historical scenario. The Spanish Quarter is historically characterized by constant socioenvironmental conditions which favor the preservation of habits of life and language but in recent years various factors have disrupted these traditional balances. Particularly relevant among these has been the conspicuous settlement of non-EU citizens. These changes have interrupted the continuity that for decades had guaranteed the preservation of social, cultural, and linguistic habits.
The analysis focuses on the variational dynamics of a phonetic phenomena, betacism. Betacism is a complex phenomenon, which presents an extremely articulated and unstable dynamic both in synchrony and in diachrony. The study shows, in a traditionally dialectal area, evidence of persistence, resistance, and innovation of the local variety under the pressure of the Italianization processes.
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The analysis focuses on the variational dynamics of a phonetic phenomena, betacism. Betacism is a complex phenomenon, which presents an extremely articulated and unstable dynamic both in synchrony and in diachrony. The study shows, in a traditionally dialectal area, evidence of persistence, resistance, and innovation of the local variety under the pressure of the Italianization processes.
Italian spoken by a sample of Filipino who immigrated to Naples starting in the 1990s, who vary
by factors such as age, education, length of stay in Italy, migratory project and migratory flow. The
research, which was comprised of three survey phases (2012, 2016 and 2022), is concerns a border area
between Sociolinguistics, Migration Linguistics and studies on Second Language Acquisition. From a
variationist perspective, we aimed to identify in the Italian of Filipino migrants the sectors of ‘success’
and ‘failure’ of the group, the sectors of differentiated inter-speaking ‘success’ and ‘failure’ and those of ‘
intra-speaker differentiated ‘success’ and ‘failure’. Here we focused in particular on the management of
articles, a complex task which becomes even more difficult in the case of learners, such as the Filipinas
in our sample, with an L1, Tagalog, which has very distant structural characteristics from Italian. This
area of the nominal morphology of the Italian of our migrants has proven to be an interesting area of
observation to investigate the onset of fossilization dynamics.