Abstract

AZEVEDO, Roberta Quintanilha; MATZENAUER, Carmen Lúcia Barreto  and  ALVES, Ubiratã Kickhöfel. FORMALIZING LEVELS OF PHONOLOGICAL REPRESENTATION IN THE PRODUCTION AND RECOGNITION OF WORD-MID STOP CODAS IN EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE: A BIDIRECTIONAL ANALYSIS. Lingüística [online]. 2020, vol.36, n.1, pp.53-80.  Epub June 01, 2020. ISSN 2079-312X.  https://doi.org/10.5935/2079-312x.20200004.

The present study approaches the phenomenon of vowel epenthesis in European Portuguese from a phonetic-phonological approach. By presenting perception and production data, it shows the variability of vowel epenthesis in European Portuguese in word-mid contexts of heterosyllabic consonant clusters (‘p.n’ - apneia, ‘t.n’ - etnia), the study also considers the possible existence of a voiceless epenthetic vowel. The acoustic verification of the production data was carried out with PRAAT (Boersma e Weenink 2013). The instrument used to check the perception of epenthesis in Portuguese was designed on the TP software (Rauber et al. 2009) and applied to the same participants in the production task. Departing from this empirical framework, our aim is to propose a formalization for the vowel epenthesis phenomenon in the bidirectional processing model of L1 - BiPhon (Boersma 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010; Boersma e Hamann 2009), as we assume perception and production to be parts of the same grammar system.

Keywords : Vowel Epenthesis in EP; Perception and Production; Constraint-Based Approach; BiPhon Model.

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