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Truncated vocatives in Romanesco

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This paper addresses vocative truncation in Romanesco (Italo-Romance), which has been described as conditioned by a host of constraints at different structural levels. We crowdsourced the data collection with an online questionnaire devised to ask the three research questions whether the acceptability of truncation depends on (a) grammatical number, (b) the individual lexical items, and (c) speaker’s age. Respondents’ ratings on a 5-point Likert scale were analysed by means of Random Forests and Conditional Inference Trees. The results confirmed the significance of number and lexeme as conditioning factors.

Source: Linguistic Variation

DOI: 10.1075/lv.24073.fed

Authors: Federica Breimaier, Vincenzo Faraoni, Michele Loporcaro

Institutions: University of Zurich, Sapienza University of Rome

Language: English

Topic: Linguistic Variation and Morphology

Subfield: Linguistics and Language

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4413282455

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