“…This point can be illustrated by comparing Italian and Venetian, the Northeastern dialect spoken in Venice and the nearby region (Ferguson, 2007; Maiden, 1995; Tuttle, 1997a) that was examined in the present investigation. Syntactic differences appear with clitics, subordinate clauses, auxiliary verbs, question formation and negation, just to mention a few (Benincà & Cinque, 2014; Cardinaletti & Ripetti, 2010; Cennamo & Sorace, 2007; Maiden, 1995; Poletto, 2000). Their phoneme repertoires differ: the velar nasal consonant /ŋ/ and the lenited l (/ɰ/) occur only in Venetian, while consonant germination appears in Italian but not in Venetian (Giannelli & Cravens, 1997; Maiden, 1995; Tuttle, 1997a; 1997b).…”