Metaphony in the Tricase Southern Salentino variety: acoustic, articulatory, and phonological analysis

A new study on metaphony in southern Salento. We use acoustic and articulatory analysis to demonstrate that the phenomenon is still in the process of development: although it has become phonological, the metaphonic process is not yet fully standardized in the community’s speech, leading to both interspeaker and intra-speaker variation.

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