| Journal: | Letras de hoje |
| Database: | CLASE |
| System number: | 000326291 |
| ISSN: | 0101-3335 |
| Authors: | Bonilha, Giovana Ferreira Goncalves1 |
| Institutions: | 1Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul. Brasil |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Season: | Mar |
| Volumen: | 42 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Pages: | 151-168 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Language: | Portugués |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Analítico |
| English abstract | The acquisition of falling oral diphthongs in Brazilian Portuguese was discussed in Bonilha (2000) on the basis of data on 86 cross-sectional subjects in light of standard Optimality Theory (OT) – generativist/connectionist. The results show that the acquisition of diphthongs formed by low vowels precedes that of diphthongs formed by mid-high and high vowels. Benayon (2006), using multi-representational models, challenges this analysis by taking issue with the OT approach. The argument is based on the fact that type and token frequencies play a role in the phonological development process. The present paper, based on the longitudinal data on a subject aged 1:0 and 4:0, proposes a reanalysis of the acquisition of the falling oral diphthongs in Brazilian Portuguese on the basis of connectionist Optimality Theory. It aims at demonstrating the suitability of this theoretical model for a data analysis that takes the role of type and token frequency into account |
| Disciplines: | Literatura y lingüística, Educación |
| Keyword: | Lingüística aplicada, Gramática, Lenguaje, Adquisición de lenguaje, Brasil, Portugués, Teoría lingüística, Diptongos orales |
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