| Date: |
2024 |
| Abstract: |
This article applies the proposals for the internal structure of vowels made within Government Phonology (GP) 2. 0 (Pöchtrager 2006, 2018) to vowel reduction in European Portuguese. GP 2. 0 assumes that openness is a structural property and that reduction consists in removing parts of that structure. This approach not only allows us to model various reduction patterns, but also makes it possible to establish a non-arbitrary link between differences in the extent of reduction and the context where it occurs. As will be shown throughout the text, taking aperture as structural has broader cross-linguistic coverage than existing alternatives. |
| Rights: |
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| Language: |
Anglès |
| Document: |
Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
| Subject: |
European Portuguese ;
Government Phonology ;
Elements ;
Vowel reduction ;
Structural ;
Structure ;
Aperture |
| Published in: |
Isogloss, Vol. 10 Núm. 3 (2024) , p. 1-22 (Articles) , ISSN 2385-4138 |
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