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The Acquisition Path of [w]-final Plurals in Brazilian Portuguese
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In: Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, Vol 17, Iss 1 (2018) (2018)
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The Acquisition Path of [w]-final Plurals in Brazilian Portuguese
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In: Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, Vol 17, Iss 1 (2018) (2018)
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The plural of Brazilian Portuguese [w]-final nouns includes an alternation with [j], but the change is partially blocked in monosyllables and following a tense vowel (Becker et al. 2017). In this paper, we present a nonce word study with 115 children ages 7–13 and 43 adults, all participants from the state of São Paulo, showing that blocking in monosyllables is acquired earlier than blocking by tense vowels. We claim that sensitivity to monosyllabicity and vowel tenseness are both due to universal phonological pressures, but the effect of vowel tenseness is learned more slowly because it is limited to the plural morphology in this language.Our results from nonce words are convergent with evidence from innovative plurals and loanword adaptation, showing the primacy of phonological factors over history, orthography, and lexical frequency when it comes to alternations and their acquisition.
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acquisition; Brazilian Portuguese; gradual learning; Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar; monosyllables; P101-410; plural morphology; wug test
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URL: https://doi.org/10.5334/jpl.189
https://doaj.org/article/f40ada4118c04a658cb806fd439e4d84
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Asymmetries in generalizing alternations to and from initial syllables. Language 88. 231–268
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In: http://becker.phonologist.org/projects/english/becker_nevins_levine_english_2012.pdf (2012)
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THE SURFEIT OF THE STIMULUS:ANALYTIC BIASES FILTER LEXICAL STATISTICS IN TURKISH LARYNGEALALTERNATIONS
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In: http://becker.phonologist.org/projects/surfeit/becker_ketrez_nevins_surfeit.pdf
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Access Provided by Penn State Univ Libraries at 02/27/13 10:35PM GMTTHE SURFEIT OF THE STIMULUS: ANALYTIC BIASES FILTER LEXICAL STATISTICS IN TURKISH LARYNGEAL ALTERNATIONS
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In: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/language/v087/87.1.becker.pdf
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*For their valuable comments and discussion, we thank AdamAlbright, Lauren Eby, Peter Graff
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In: http://becker.phonologist.org/initialsyllfaith/becker_nevins_lsa85_initial_syll.pdf
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