The research project aims at providing an experimental sociophonetic framework on the residual phonetic phenomenon of /r/ degemination in Tuscany, through the reuse of an historical oral archive, initially conceived for other purposes. The selected archive was collected by the historian Angela Spinelli in the early 1980s in the rural area of Prato to preserve the memory of the post second World War period. The archive was digitized in 2011 within the Gra.fo project 1 and consists of more than 120 hours of interviews and related metadata. However, the archive is unfortunately currently unavailable due to restructuring work on the original website. Given this context, the project goals are a) to insert Spinelli’s archive into the Archivio Vi.Vo. architecture 2, in order to safely store, preserve, organize and explore its content 3; b) to conduct the sociophonetic analysis on the productions of /r/. The first goal represents the opportunity to test/prove the adaptability of Archivio Vi.Vo. with different types of archives and eventually favor the emergence of new ideas for the implementation of additional features. The second, shows the potential of oral archives of the past to be a valuable source for conducting linguistic research 4. The project represents an interdisciplinary work that benefits from the use of innovative technologies/tools developed within the CLARIN(-IT) research infrastructure and, at the same time, offers additional validation on the accessibility, adaptability, and reusability of the Archivio Vi.Vo. architecture 5.
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