Sobre la nasal palatal de la base y las palabras acabadas em -inho

• Main Author: Cíntia da Costa Alcântara
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística 2014-06-01
• Series: Fórum Linguístico
• Subjects: Análise acústica; fonologia não-linear; morfologia
• Online Access: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/forum/article/view/31929

This study concerns Portuguese non derived words which have a nasal consonant like tamanho, medonho, aranha, manha, and its derived forms in -inho(a) – tama[i)]nho (~ tamaninho), medo[i)]nho (medoninho?), ma[i) ]nha (maninha?). It is advocated that in such contexts there is evidence about the palatal nasal information of base forms. The word ranho, which derived form ranho is not misinterpreted as the derived form raio of the word raio. We interpret, in the light of Wetzels (1997; 2000), the maintenance in derived words of nasal feature of the base as an evidence of the geminate nasal. We use software PRAAT, 5.3 version (BOERSMA and WEENINCK, 2013), to try to explain this phenomenon under the acoustic approach. The obtained results would reveal the relevancy of an experimental analysis with aim theoretical hypotheses to be tested.