Il parlato nelle fonti della Grande Guerra. le prime registrazioni dialettali

Soldiers of numerous ethnicities concentrated in the Austrian and German prison camps of the First World War. The war was therefore immediately understood as a scientific laboratory, that is, an extraordinary study opportunity for anthropologists and linguists. In this spirit they studied the writings of prisoners the censors and the case of Spitzer is known. Instead, a research initiative that was covered by state secrecy is now coming out of the shadows for the centenary; it involved many important academics from the two countries. The voices and cultures of the peoples of the world were systematically collected in the prison camps. Two phonographic commissions, in Vienna and Berlin, were able to produce recordings of speech and song that today, digitized, offer unique sound documents. The discovery is of great importance for Italian dialectology.