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Figure 2.1Greenberg’s cycle of grammaticalization for articles applied to French 94

Figure 2.2The position of some Romance languages on Greenberg’s cycle according to Kabatek (2002) 95

Figure 3.1Spectrogram with F₀ contour for Example (3.25) 120

Figure 3.2Spectrogram with F₀ contour for Example (3.39) 126

Figure 3.3Comparison of item types across conditions 133

Figure 3.4Structure of the Corpusdoportugues word lists 138

Figure 3.5Relative frequencies of possible contexts for assimilation in EP vs. BrP 141

Figure 4.1Spectrogram of (4.17) ‘o o o carrinho’ 173

Figure 4.2Spectrogram of beginning of (4.18) 174

Figure 5.1The distribution of the 156 BS-judgments from Mar2 over the five values 216

Figure 5.2Summed BS sentence judgments per participant and sentence for Mar_2 216

Figure 5.3Summed judgments per BS sentence for Mar2 217

Figure 5.4Number of judgments per value grouped by participants 218

Figure 5.5Distribution of judgment values from the BS sentences in Wal 218

Figure 5.6Summed judgments per participant and sentence for Wal1 219

Figure 5.7Histograms of judgment values per participant 219

Figure 5.8Mean ratings from Ion1 (BrP), by context and sentence type 222

Figure 5.9Histograms for BS judgments in Wal3 and Wal4 234

Figure 5.10Summed judgments from Wal3 per speaker in increasing order 234

Figure 5.11Summed judgments from Wal4 per speaker in increasing order 235

Figure 5.12Histograms of judgments grouped by speakers for Wal3 235

Figure 5.13Histogram of judgments grouped by speakers for Wal4 237

Figure 5.14Parallel coordinate plots for Wal3 237

Figure 5.15Parallel coordinate plots for Wal4 238

Figure 5.16Histogram of the judgment values in Wal3 after participant elimination 239

Figure 5.17Descriptive results for Wal3 240

Figure 5.18Overall results for Wal3 and Wal4 241

Figure 6.1Graphical representation of an NP characterized by a PG 261