How learning to read and write influences the dialectal traits in -sc clusters

Abstract

Words written with the initial graphic sequences “es+C” and “ex+C” raise many problematic questions to the phonology of European Portuguese since the production of these sequences is changing (Delgado Martins et al, 1996:302). This paper focuses on the analysis of how the speakers produce and segment these –sC clusters and on the variables that might affect these tasks. Therefore, we conducted a study to perceive what might influence the speakers’ phonological knowledge.