Becker, Michael;
Nevins, Andrew;
Sandalo, Filomena;
Rizzato, Érick;
(2024)
Prosodic generalizations in the Brazilian Portuguese diphthongal plural.
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
, 23
(1)
pp. 1-31.
10.16995/jpl.9740.
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Abstract
The diphthongal plural in Brazilian Portuguese is sensitive to three phonological factors: monosyllabicity, licensing of nasal diphthongs by stress, and vertical dispersion of oral diphthongs. We present an analysis that captures the gradient distribution of the Brazilian Portuguese plurals ending in diphthongs, both oral and nasal, using a probabilistic grammar based on the well-understood factors mentioned above. This grammar is trained on corpus data and is sensitive to prosodic generalizations; it correctly derives existing plurals while accurately generalizing beyond individual lexical items and predicting participants’ choices in nonce word tasks. The results are incompatible with analyses that apply uniformly to all lexical items, as well as with those that simply memorize semipredictable plurals without incorporating phonologically-based generalizations.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Prosodic generalizations in the Brazilian Portuguese diphthongal plural |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.16995/jpl.9740 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.16995/jpl.9740 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2024 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| Keywords: | Brazilian Portuguese, nasal diphthong, initial syllable faithfulness, diphthong dispersion, nonce words, wug test |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Linguistics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10204590 |
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