🇮🇹 Italiano

Journal Articles

De Iacovo, V., Dian, A., & Hajek, J. (2025). The perception of gemination in Italian by first-language speakers in Italy and heritage and second-language speakers in Australia. Phonetica, 82(5). https://doi.org/10.1515/phon-2025-0012

Dian, A., Hajek, J., & Fletcher, J. (2024). Cross-regional patterns of obstruent voicing and gemination: The case of Roman and Veneto Italian. Languages, 9(12), 383. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9120383

Dian, A., Hajek, J., & Fletcher, J. (In review). The acoustic realization of intervocalic /v/ and /vː/ in Italian: Evidence of articulatory variability. Journal of the International Phonetic Association.

Hajek, J., Dian, A., Ford, C., Stevens, M., & Margetts, A. (Forthcoming). Saliba-Logea. Journal of the International Phonetic Association.

Conference Proceedings

Dian, A., Hajek, J., & Fletcher, J. (Forthcoming). ‘Che ro[b(b)]a!’ – Durational patterns of word-medial intervocalic /b dʒ/ across three regional varieties of Italian. In Proceedings of AISV 2025, Urbino, Italy.

Dian, A., Hajek, J., & Fletcher, J. (2024). An acoustic and electroglottographic (EGG) investigation of preaspiration and voice quality in the Italian four-way stop contrast across regional accents. In Proceedings of the 19th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 147–150). Melbourne, Australia.

Aldossary, A., Dian, A., Hajek, J., & Fletcher, J. (2024). On consonant gemination and durational effects in word-medial position in Modern Standard Arabic: A preliminary study. In Proceedings of the 19th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 127–130). Melbourne, Australia.

Dian, A., & Burroni, F. (2024). A machine-learning investigation of durational and non-durational cues to stop gemination in Italian across regional varieties and speaking rates. Proceedings of LabPhon 19. Seoul, South Korea.

Dian, A., Hajek, J., & Fletcher, J. (2023). Preaspiration in Italian voiceless geminate and singleton stops. In Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 888–892). Prague, Czech Republic.

Dian, A., Hajek, J., & Fletcher, J. (2023). Near-merger of /sː ʃ/ in Veneto Italian: A preliminary cross-generational acoustic investigation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154, A38.

Dian, A., Hajek, J., & Fletcher, J. (2022). Stop (de)gemination in Veneto Italian: The role of durational correlates. In Proceedings of the 18th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 176–180). Canberra, Australia.

Works in Progress

Dian, A., & Burroni, F. (Submitted). The ‘evanescent /l/’ in Venetan: A preliminary EMA study. International Conference on Phonetic Variation, Granada (Spain) 2026.

Dian, A., Burroni, F., & Hajek, J. (Submitted). The ‘evanescent /l/’ in central Venetan: A first articulatory-based account. Going Romance, Venice (Italy) 2025.

Payne, E., & Dian, A. (In preparation). The intonation of polar questions and declarative rises in central Venetan. [For submission to Journal of Laboratory Phonology].

Dian, A., & Burroni, F. (In preparation). Multiple acoustic cues to the singleton-geminate contrast in Italian across regional varieties and speech rates.

Hajek, J., & Dian, A. (In preparation). On ejectives in Waima’a: A typological and phonetic review.

Dian, A., & Cossu, P. (In preparation). Rhythm constraints and consonantal strength dynamics govern gemination in Sardinian Italian.