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Angelo Dian

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I’m a phonetician, so I’ll start my introduction with the phonetic transcription of my name the way I say it, transcribed using the IPA alphabet: [ˈɐndÍĄÊ’elo ˈdjɐƋ]. [ˈdjɐƋ], one syllable, with a diphthong and a velar nasal at the end, is how people say my surname in the Veneto region of Italy, where I’m from. However, the rest of Italians tend to say [ˈdi.ɐn] (two syllables and an alveolar nasal at the end). Either pronunciation is fine to me :-)

I currently hold a post as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Phonetics at the University of Oxford as part of the ESRC-funded research project “Mapping Prosodic Convergence in the Eastern Mediterranean” led by PI Elinor Payne (temporary link here).

For this project, my research focuses on prosodic traces of language contact, such as intonation, between Italo-Romance varieties (mostly Venetan and Italian) and the varieties of Croatian spoken along the Adriatic coast in Istria and Dalmatia.

Another major research interest of mine concerns the interaction beween consonantal length (gemination) and strength in Italian and other languages - a topic I extensively researched during my PhD at the University of Melbourne.

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Recent publications

  • Dian, A., Baltazani, M., Armostis, S., & Payne, E. (2026). Reconciling dynamic data analysis with linguistic reality: comparing legendre polynomial modelling and GAMM applied to prosodic contact. Proceedings of Interspeech 2026, 560–564.
  • Payne, E., & Dian, A. (2026). Broad focus rise(-fall) declaratives in Venetan: investigating typological outliers in Italo-Romance intonation. Proceedings of Interspeech 2026, 3716–3720.
  • Dian, A., Hajek, J., & Fletcher, J. (2026). The acoustic realization of intervocalic /v/ and /vː/ in Italian: Evidence of articulatory variability. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 56, e7. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100325100881
  • Dian A., Burroni F. (2026). The ‘evanescent /l/’ in Venetan: a preliminary EMA study. In Herrero de Haro, A., Repede, D. & Naciri-Azzouz. A. (eds.) International Conference on Phonetic Variation: Book of Abstracts, pp. 186-188.

Latest news

  • Oct 2026 - I had a great time at Interspeech 2026, Sydney! It was a wonderful surprise to be awarded the “Best scientific communication award” by ASSTA :-) Here’s me receiving it on stage during the closing ceremony:
  • Jul 2026 - Both papers from the ESRC project “Mapping Prosody” we submitted to Interspeech 2026 have been accepted! Interspeech is taking place in Sydney, Australia, in September this year. The two papers are titled “Broad focus rise(-fall) declaratives in Venetan: investigating typological outliers in Italo-Romance intonation” “Reconciling dynamic data analysis with linguistic reality: comparing Legendre Polynomial Modelling and GAMM applied to prosodic contact”. Time to fly back Down Under soon :-)
  • Apr 2026 - I have recently given two talks on Venetan at international conferences. At BAAP at Warwick (UK) this month Elinor Payne and I presented ‘disambiguating intonational rises in a Venetan dialect’. At ICPhoV at Granada (Spain) in January I talked about ‘the ‘evanescent /l/’ in Venetan: a preliminary EMA study’, conducted with Francesco Burroni (IPS, LMU Munich).
  • Dec 2025 - An illustration of the IPA for Saliba-Logea (a language of Papua New Guinea) by John Hajek and other authors including myself, has been published in the Journal of the International Phonetic Association (link here). It’s exciting to have contributed to the phonetic documentation of an endangered language!