Excerpt from The Phonology of the Pistojese Dialect: Dissertation Presented to the Board of University Studies of the John Hopkins University for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

During J uly and August I lived at Cutigliano, a pleasant little Village in the Pistojese mountains near San Marcello. Wherever I went abundant opportunities presented them selves for hearing the natives speak their dialect. Since the literary language is taught in all the schools, the patoz's is gradually dying out in fact one cannot get the dialect in its absolute purity except from the older inhabitants, and espe cially from the old women.

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