Dialectal variation in european portuguese central vowel perception
- The present paper aims at providing empirical evidence for dialectal variation concerning the perception of the central vowel [ɐ] in European Portuguese (EP). More concretely, this study compares the perception of the contrast between [a] and [ɐ] by native speakers of two varieties of EP: 23 speakers of a northern Portuguese dialect (from the city of Braga) and 23 speakers of the Littoral Center variety of EP (from the city of Lisbon, defined as Standard European Portuguese (SEP)). Based on a discrimination test, the results show that the two groups of speakers differ with respect to the perception of the contrast between the two central vowels under investigation. The speakers of the northern variety differentiate less between the two central vowels compared to the speakers from Lisbon.
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| Author: | Valerie Horn, Esther Rinke, Cristina Flores |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-552926 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.5334/jpl.232 |
| ISSN: | 2397-5563 |
| ISSN: | 1645-4537 |
| Parent Title (English): | Journal of Portuguese linguistics |
| Publisher: | Ubiquity Press |
| Place of publication: | London |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2020/02/25 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2020/02/25 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2020/08/06 |
| Tag: | European Portuguese; central vowels; dialectal variation; perception |
| Volume: | 19 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Page Number: | 12 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 12 |
| Note: | © 2020 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/. |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 471003352 |
| Institutes: | Neuere Philologien |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| 4 Sprache / 46 Spanisch, Portugiesisch / 460 Spanisch, Portugiesisch | |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Open-Access-Publikationsfonds: | Neuere Philologien |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
