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Percursos de ditongos crescentes no Português Brasileiro

2014; Editora da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (EDIPUCRS); Volume: 49; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.15448/1984-7726.2014.1.14650

1984-7726

Thaïs Cristófaro Silva, Ingrid de Castro Bolina Faria,

Food, Nutrition, and Cultural Practices

This paper analyses some synchronic pathways associated with rising diphthongs in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) from Belo Horizonte. These pathways reflect dynamic and gradual instances of articulatory parameters involved in the production of rising diphthongs as found in words like cárie ‘tooth decay’ e árduo ‘arduous’. The theoretical perspective adopted incorporates the principles of Multirepresentational models, Dynamical models as well as theoretical perspectives that analyze linguistic phenomena within a Complex Adaptive Systems paradigm. We suggest that the various pathways which were analyzed for rising diphthongs, namely hiatus, diphthong, monophthong, cancellation vowel, lead to the emergence of a new phonological pattern in BP: the occurrence of several consonants in word-final position. We argue that the emergence of a new phonological pattern – various final consonants in the end of words – reflects the current stage of self-organization in the BP phonological.