Sociolinguistic perceptions of /S/ in syllable coda in Brazilian Portuguese
The main aim of this study was to investigate how individuals from different regions of Brazil perceive variations in the alveolar and palato-alveolar pronunciations of /S/ in the syllable coda. To this end, a discrimination test and two categorization tests were administered to 240 listeners from s...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Entretextos |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/50483 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/entretextos/article/view/50483 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Percepção /S/ em coda Português Brasileiro /S/ in coda position perception Brazilian Portuguese /S/ en coda percepción Portugués Brasileño |
| Sumario: | The main aim of this study was to investigate how individuals from different regions of Brazil perceive variations in the alveolar and palato-alveolar pronunciations of /S/ in the syllable coda. To this end, a discrimination test and two categorization tests were administered to 240 listeners from six Brazilian capitals to map the perception of the contrast between two pronunciations of /S/ in 16 pairs of stimuli recorded by a native speaker, as well as the listeners' identification with the evaluated pronunciations. The results revealed that the distinction between alveolar and palato-alveolar variants of /S/ seems sensitive to some structural categories, such as the voicing of the fricative and the type of coda. The participants demonstrated awareness of the usage patterns of the variable in their communities, as observed in production data. Additionally, they tend to choose pronunciations similar to those used to characterize their community for their speech, evidencing a dialectal identification with the linguistic variable under study. These findings provide evidence about factors involving the perception of phonetic-phonological variations in speech communities with distinct characteristics. |
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