The object of this paper is the validation of the Archivio Vi.Vo. architecture, developed within the CLARIN-IT consortium for the preservation and accessible consultation of historical oral archives. Following the first case study employing the Caterina Bueno archive, the goal is to now show how this innovative architecture is also suitable for conducting research investigations on the archival data and hosting different types of archives. The real use case study presented in this contribution, aims at employing the Angela Spinelli archive for conducting a sociophonetic investigation on Tuscan vernacular.

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This research contributes to the study of phonetic attrition and the processes of construction and maintenance of speakers’ sociolinguistic identity in migratory settings. This preliminary work focuses on Sardinian immigrants in York (UK), by analysing the maintenance or loss of characteristic phonetic features of their Sardinian Italian, in particular stop consonants. Despite these limitations, the results of the acoustic analysis show that maintaining linguistic skills in Sardinian local varieties in migration settings is important for the resistance of Sardinian stop consonants to phonetic attrition. Furthermore, being members of Sardinian communities and speakers of Sardinian is critical for maintaining speakers’ identities, especially in multilingual and multicultural environments.