CCV branching onsets in Brazilian Portuguese: Productive or lexicalized?

AbstractThis paper aims to discuss the phonotactic productivity of branching onsets in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). We ask whether the frequency of use of a given syllable type or of its segmental sequences can mirror the speaker’s phonotactic competence or if it mirrors a historical accident. To veri...

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Autor principal: Toni, Andressa
Formato: Artículo revista
Lenguaje:Portugués
Publicado: Facultad de Lenguas. Universidad Nacional del Comahue 2020
Materias:
phonology
phonotactics
frequency
syllables
laboratory phonology
fonologia
fonotaxe
frequência de uso
sílabas
fonologia de laboratório
Acceso en línea:http://revele.uncoma.edu.ar/index.php/lingustica/article/view/2621
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Repositorio de Revistas Electrónicas REVELE (UNComahue) de Universidad Nacional del Comahue
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phonotactics
frequency
syllables
laboratory phonology
fonologia
fonotaxe
frequência de uso
sílabas
fonologia de laboratório
spellingShingle phonology
phonotactics
frequency
syllables
laboratory phonology
fonologia
fonotaxe
frequência de uso
sílabas
fonologia de laboratório
Toni, Andressa
CCV branching onsets in Brazilian Portuguese: Productive or lexicalized?
topic_facet phonology
phonotactics
frequency
syllables
laboratory phonology
fonologia
fonotaxe
frequência de uso
sílabas
fonologia de laboratório
author Toni, Andressa
author_facet Toni, Andressa
author_sort Toni, Andressa
title CCV branching onsets in Brazilian Portuguese: Productive or lexicalized?
title_short CCV branching onsets in Brazilian Portuguese: Productive or lexicalized?
title_full CCV branching onsets in Brazilian Portuguese: Productive or lexicalized?
title_fullStr CCV branching onsets in Brazilian Portuguese: Productive or lexicalized?
title_full_unstemmed CCV branching onsets in Brazilian Portuguese: Productive or lexicalized?
title_sort ccv branching onsets in brazilian portuguese: productive or lexicalized?
description AbstractThis paper aims to discuss the phonotactic productivity of branching onsets in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). We ask whether the frequency of use of a given syllable type or of its segmental sequences can mirror the speaker’s phonotactic competence or if it mirrors a historical accident. To verify the phonological nature of the branching onset structure (Consonant1+Consonant2+Vowel) and of its different segmental sequences (frequent sequences /tɾ, pɾ, bɾ/, infrequent sequences /dɾ, kl, gl/ and marginal sequences /tl, dl, vl/), we analyzed data from a speech corpus and a pseudoword generation task. The results point that i) although infrequent, CCV structure is productive in BP phonotactics, since speakers can use this structure to form new words in the language; ii) frequent and infrequent consonant sequences are equally productive in pseudoword formation; iii) marginal sequences are less productive than frequent and infrequent sequences; iv) although the low frequency of /tl, dl/ and /vl/ is attributed to different external factors (perceptual difficulties; diacronic accidents), both have similar phonotactic status. These results suggest that the frequency of use cannot be taken as a mirror to the speaker’s phonotactic grammar, also suggesting that this grammar distinguishes two levels of phonological productivity: productive and marginal.
publisher Facultad de Lenguas. Universidad Nacional del Comahue
publishDate 2020
url http://revele.uncoma.edu.ar/index.php/lingustica/article/view/2621
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