Prominence Augmentation via Nasalization in Brazilian Portuguese

Nevins, Andrew; Costa, Paula Pinheiro

doi:10.5565/rev/catjl.291

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“…Edge nasalisation has been approached in the literature as a prosodic enhancement effect. The notion of prosodic enhancement relies on the logic that edge effects involving unstressed vowels mainly serve to augment the prosodic prominence of the syllable in question (Nevins & Costa, 2019;Smith, 2005). In the Brazilian Portuguese examples presented in 3.4, onsetless unstressed vowels are nasalised word-initially.…”

Section: Edge Nasalisationmentioning

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“…It is a fact attested cross-linguistically that unstressed vowels are durationally shorter than their stressed counterparts, regardless of their quality (Fry, 1955). Expectedly, when an unstressed vowel occurs in an onsetless syllable, the vowel becomes even shorter than its counterpart in an onsetful syllable (Nevins & Costa, 2019). Importantly, nasalised vowels are known to be durationally longer than their oral counterparts (Akpanglo-Nartey, 2017).…”

Section: Edge Nasalisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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دراسة استقصائية عبر اللغات حول تأنيف الصوائت في غياب الأصوات الأنفية: تصنيف تاكسونومي موسّع

المحمادي

2024

مجلة كلية الآداب - جامعة القاهرة

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A centuries-old, seemingly counterintuitive observation made in the study of speech sounds is that a vowel can be nasalised in an environment that lacks an etymological nasal consonant. This phenomenon is known as spontaneous nasalisation, and it has been reported in typologically diverse languages across the world. This study uses data drawn from published sources of 30 languages to build a taxonomy of the non-nasal environments that have been shown to condition vowel nasalisation. Five major types of spontaneous nasalisation have been identified. The study reveals that the non-nasal consonants that have the capacity to induce vowel nasalisation are mostly glottals, pharyngeals, sibilants, and aspirates. The study also reveals that approximant-induced nasalisation is typologically rare; only one out of the 30 languages investigated here is found to exhibit this pattern. Low vowels are found to be particularly susceptible to nasalisation in non-nasal environments. In several languages, vowel nasalisation is found to be prosodically circumscribed. This finding lends support to the proposition that spontaneous nasalisation can be analysed as an edge-effect phenomenon serving to augment prosodic prominence word-initially and improve perceptibility word-finally. Phonetic and phonological explanations for spontaneous nasalisation are also provided.

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Section: Edge Nasalisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

دراسة استقصائية عبر اللغات حول تأنيف الصوائت في غياب الأصوات الأنفية: تصنيف تاكسونومي موسّع

المحمادي

2024

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Aumento de proeminência e maximização de contraste via epêntese de glide no português brasileiro

Pereira Eberle

2023

Let. Hoje (Online)

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Este estudo investiga os efeitos da proeminência posicional e da meta funcional de maximização de contrastes nos fenômenos de inserção e apagamento de glides orais em sequências vocálicas do português brasileiro, como, por exemplo, a epêntese como resolução de hiatos, “frear – fre[j]ar”/ “voa” – “vo[w]a”, e a redução de ditongos para uma vogal simples, “cadeira – cade[ ]ra”/ “roupa” – “ro[ ]pa”. Foram realizados um teste de julgamento de aceitabilidade, em que os participantes deveriam avaliar as diferentes pronúncias de palavras reais e inventadas como “natural” ou “não natural”, e um teste estatístico de regressão logística com efeitos mistos. A partir disso, atestou-se que a epêntese em hiatos foi preferida em posições de V1 acentuada ou inicial e que o apagamento de glides em ditongos foi menos preferido em monossílabos e em todas as posições de alta proeminência psicolinguística e/ou fonética. Além disso, também foi constatado que a não inserção ou perda do glide resultaria em uma carência de sonoridade demandada por essas posições. Em relação ao contraste, ditongos com maiores dispersões na dimensão de F2 são mais resistentes ao apagamento, enquanto os ditongos menos contrastivos são mais reduzidos por serem também menos perceptivos. Embora seja bastante defendido que a epêntese ocorra no ataque da V2 em função da restrição ONSET (todas as sílabas devem ter ataque), argumenta-se que o glide se adjunge à V1 como resultado da demanda de alta sonoridade em posição de V1 acentuada, que não é satisfeita pela vogal média-alta [e o]; além de que o glide possui traços semelhantes ao da vogal precedente (V1). Por fim, conclui-se que a proeminência posicional e o grau de contraste influenciam nos fenômenos de inserção e apagamento de glides no português brasileiro.

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Is the Foot a Prosodic Domain in European Portuguese?

Vigário,

Martínez-Paricio

2024

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It is widely accepted that languages organize speech material into prosodic domains, which are hierarchically arranged. However, it is still a matter of debate whether this prosodic hierarchy is composed of a small number of universal categories, or whether these prosodic categories are language-particular and emergent. In this article, we concentrate on one of these categories, the foot, and we investigate its role in European Portuguese (EP). Whereas research on EP has shown that other prosodic domains commonly found crosslinguistically are active in the language, it seems that EP may lack this prosodic constituent. Therefore, the goal of this article is to systematically investigate the role of the foot in a number of areas within EP grammar. In our study, we defend some new approaches to several long-standing issues in EP phonology and we conclude that many facts of the language can be, in fact, better understood resorting to the foot domain. Namely, the distribution of stress in the most frequent morphological classes (thematic non-verbs and present tense verbs), -inh-/-zinh- diminutive formation, the domain for regular vowel reduction, obligatory glide formation, the stress window, and poetic rhyme seem to benefit from a metrically-governed account. By contrast, other facts, such as vowel lowering, word clipping, minimal words, secondary stress, and schwa deletion are shown not to be conditioned by the foot in EP. Importantly, the evidence we found for metrical structure only cues the prominent foot of the word, suggesting that pretonic material may not be footed. All in all, in addition to shedding light on facts previously poorly understood, and exposing some noteworthy specificities of EP in the realm of Romance languages and other varieties of Portuguese, we draw implications for the universal characterization of the prosodic hierarchy and its acquisition.

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Prominence Augmentation via Nasalization in Brazilian Portuguese

Cited by 3 publications

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دراسة استقصائية عبر اللغات حول تأنيف الصوائت في غياب الأصوات الأنفية: تصنيف تاكسونومي موسّع

دراسة استقصائية عبر اللغات حول تأنيف الصوائت في غياب الأصوات الأنفية: تصنيف تاكسونومي موسّع

Aumento de proeminência e maximização de contraste via epêntese de glide no português brasileiro

Is the Foot a Prosodic Domain in European Portuguese?

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