Front rounded vowels in Azorean Portuguese: A reappraisal

IF 0.2 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
P. Krämer
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The first part of this article investigates the distribution and emergence of front rounded vowels (FRV) in the Portuguese dialect spoken on the Azorean island of Sao Miguel in light of data taken from the Ethnolinguistic Atlas of the Azores (ALEAc). The analysis confirms previous findings about the distribution of FRV. Additionally, the ALEAc shows that this phenomenon spreads beyond the well-known contexts of stressed positions. FRV also occur in unstressed syllables and the mid-front rounded vowel [o] alternates with its diphthongised counterparts [oj] and [ow]. This alternation calls for a reflection about the historical and articulatory background of [o] in Portuguese dialects. The extensive use of FRV opens up further research perspectives in terms of the sociolinguistic significance of the phenomenon. The second part of this article focuses on the sociohistorical background of the emergence of FRV in Portuguese dialects. The concept of the feature pool provides a framework for the processes of feature selection in a situation of linguistic contacts such as those preceding the settlement period of the Azores and subsequent contact on the islands. A combination of three different concepts of markedness helps understand why a highly unusual feature like FRV emerged and persists until today.
亚速尔葡萄牙语的前圆元音:重新评价
本文的第一部分根据亚速尔民族语言地图集(ALEAc)的数据,调查了亚速尔群岛圣米格尔岛葡萄牙语方言中前圆元音(FRV)的分布和出现。该分析证实了先前关于FRV分布的发现。此外,alac表明,这种现象的蔓延超出了众所周知的压力职位的背景。FRV也出现在非重读音节中,前面中间的圆形元音[o]与双元音[oj]和[ow]交替出现。这种交替需要对[o]在葡萄牙方言中的历史和发音背景进行反思。FRV的广泛使用为这一现象的社会语言学意义开辟了进一步的研究视角。本文第二部分着重分析了葡萄牙语方言中FRV出现的社会历史背景。特征池的概念为语言接触情况下的特征选择过程提供了一个框架,例如在亚速尔群岛定居时期之前和随后在岛屿上的接触。结合三种不同的标记概念,有助于理解为什么像FRV这样极不寻常的特征会出现并持续到今天。
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Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
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