Penn Undergraduate Investigates Dialect and Identity in Italy
This summer, Benjamin Finkel, C’17, traveled to the Ciociaria region of Italy to look at why a dialect spoken there is not accompanied by a strong sense of cultural identity. He was inspired to do the research by a course he took last spring on Italian history. “My research is the first that I’m aware of,” Finkel says, “to consider the Ciociarian dialect from a geographic perspective in order to understand the boundaries of the region of Ciociaria.”
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