The Sociolinguistic Evolution of a Sound Change

This study focuses on the analysis of linguistic and extralinguistic factors influencing the phonological variation of vowel nasalization in the speech of bilingual speakers of Uruguayan Portuguese (UP). The setting is the city of Rivera located along the Uruguayan-Brazilian borderline. The data wer...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rosa-Maria Castañeda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2016-01-01
Series:Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
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Online Access:http://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/articles/3