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A epêntese consonantal em português e sua interpretação na Teoria da Otimalidade

2000; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MINAS GERAIS; Volume: 9; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.17851/2237-2083.9.1.109-162

2237-2083

Luiz Carlos Cagliari, Gladis Massini‐Cagliari,

Linguistic Variation and Morphology

A study of the consonantal epenthesis in Portuguese, interpretedaccording to the Theory of Optimality framework, is presented inthis article. The featural nature of the epenthetic consonants isdefined, as well as the context of their occurrence. The implicationto the word derivational process is commented on. Consonantalepenthesis in Portuguese is in close relationship with sandhi andliaison processes.