Chapter 2
Glide insertion to break a hiatus across words in European Portuguese
The role of prosodic, geographic and sociolinguistic factors
Glide insertion to breakhiatus has long been reported in the literature to occur in the Northern and Central varieties of Portuguese but this has not been systematically investigated before. From a larger corpus of speech material collected in several locations in the North and Center of Portugal, we selected for analysis a sample coming from six locations in the Northwest of Portugal and one location in the Center. The effects of several linguistic and extralinguistic factors were evaluated, namely, prosodic domain, level of prominence in the second vowel, prosodic status of first word (W1), region, task, and age. A binary logistic regression model showed that all factors considered are good predictors of the presence of the glide, some considered in isolation (prosodic status of W1 and task), and some in interaction with others (prosodic domain*region, prominence level*task, prominence level*age).
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Background
- 3.Method and materials
- 4.Results
- 4.1Domain for glide insertion
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4.2Prominence configuration
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4.3Phonological status of Word 1
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4.4Age as a factor
- 4.5Predictive power of linguistic and extralinguistic factors
- 5.General discussion
- 6.Final remarks
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Acknowledgements
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Notes
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References
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