Professor Giulia Guarnieri, from Bronx Community College, has analysed the recordings of interviews with Italian immigrants in the United States from a linguistic point of view.
Between Italian, English and dialect: how Ellis Island’s migrants spoke
Emigrants coming up the board-walk from the barge, which has taken them off the steamship company's docks, and transported them to Ellis Island. Source: Wikipedia
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Giulia Guarnieri presented her paper 'Spoken identity: conversational analysis of Ellis Island’s Italian American Immigrants' at the Diaspore Italiane conference in New York.
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