Abstract
The present study investigates some quantitative aspects of the tonic vocalism of the western Emilian dialect of Piandelagotti based on a corpus of data collected in 2008. It considers the relation between tonic vowel and post-tonic consonant lengths in three different syl- labic structures: in open syllable and in vowel lengthening contexts, the vocalic length is (nearly) double the consonantal length, whereas in closed syllables they tend to be equiva- lent. Further investigation of the postonic contexts in closed syllables revealed differences in the respective V/C rating. Thanks to the result obtained in the second part of the analysis dedicated to the distinctiveness of vowel quantity (V/V: 0.55), it is possible to place the Piandelagotti dialect under the Gallo-italic dialects.