ZIta is the first sociophonetic corpus dedicated to dental affricates, two phonemes characterizing Italian regional variation and very difficoult for L2-speakers to acquire. (c) Meluzzi, Chiara & Nese, Nicholas "Dental affricates variation in Italian regional varieties: introducing the ZIta corpus", poster presented at XV AISV Congress, 14th-16th February, Arezzo (Italy).
Useful references Meluzzi, Chiara (2016) A New Sonority Degree in the Realization of Dental Affricates /ts dz/ in Italian, in Martin J. Ball & Nicole Müller (eds.) Challenging Sonority - Cross-linguistic Evidence, London: Equinox Publishing: pp. 252-275. Nese, Nicholas & Meluzzi, Chiara (2018) Accomodamento ed emergenza di varianti fonetiche: le affricate dentali a Pavia e Bolzano, in Bertini, C.; Celata, C.; Lenoci, G.; Meluzzi, C. & Ricci, I. (a cura di) Fattori sociali e biologici nella variazione fonetica / Social and Biological Factors in Speech Variation, Milano: OfficinaVentuno, Studi Aisv 3, pp. 69-86.