Nasal epenthesis in preverbal accusative clitic pronouns. A variationist study of present-day dialectal European Portuguese

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M. Nkollo
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Abstract

The paper investigates nasal epenthesis in vowel-initial preverbal 3rd person accusative pronouns in modern dialectal European Portuguese (EP). The study is underpinned by the data retrieved from the 'verbatim transcription' section of CORDIAL-SIN, a dialectal corpus of contemporary EP. Speakers' individual attitudes towards onset insertion are analyzed in the fifteen localities where variation is found. Four grammars (prosody-syntax mappings) are singled out, depending on whether the alveolar nasal is extended on preverbal clitic pronouns only or is found in other monosyllabic clitic words (definite articles and demonstrative pronouns) as well. Analogical extensions are demonstrated to be instrumental in inducing speakers to add the onset. Moreover, the analysis points to the unsteadiness in the realization of proclisis triggers. Besides surfacing as a nasal diphthong, their last syllable frequently ends in a monophthong, its vowel quality gets altered or its vocalic nucleus denasalizes. Finally, the historical profile of this external sandhi process is approached. The change is argued to have spread from grammatically and communicatively unmarked contexts, close to orality. Rather than positing a continuous transmission of nasal epenthesis across generations, emphasis is placed on the consistency with which preverbal clitic pronouns were treated in various periods and in different communicative circumstances.
语前宾格群代词中的鼻塞附加。当代欧洲葡萄牙语方言的变化论研究
本文研究了现代方言欧洲葡萄牙语(EP)元音声母前第三人称宾格代词中的鼻塞现象。这项研究的基础是从当代EP的方言语料库CORDIAL-SIN的“逐字转录”部分检索到的数据。在发现差异的15个地方,分析了说话者对插入语的个人态度。四种语法(韵律语法映射)被单独列出,这取决于肺泡鼻音是仅在语前集团代词上扩展,还是在其他单音节集团词(定冠词和指示代词)中也存在。类比延伸被证明有助于诱导说话人增加开头。此外,分析还指出了proclisis触发器在实现过程中的不稳定性。除了表现为鼻双元音外,它们的最后一个音节经常以单元音结尾,元音质量发生变化或发声核变性。最后,对这一外部桑迪过程的历史概况进行了探讨。这种变化被认为是从语法和交流上没有标记的上下文中传播出来的,接近口语。与其假设鼻音重聚在几代人之间持续传播,不如强调在不同时期和不同的交际环境中对语前派系代词的处理的一致性。
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Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
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