Variable phenomena and liquid variants in complex onset - doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v35i2.15639
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https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v35i2.15639Keywords:
phonetics, acoustic analysis, rhotacismAbstract
Rhotacism is a shifting process among liquid, lateral and rhotic consonants, in the environment of complex onset as, for example, the substitution of plan for pran. It is an ancient and productive phenomenon in the Portuguese language, traditionally described as the categorical change of a lateral sound by a rhotic one. However, the results of an acoustic analysis of the phenomenon shows that there are three variants in its usage and not just the tap one, besides the occurrence of lateralized rhotics, intermediate sounds to lateralized and rhotic ones, already observed in other languages. The analysis of the phonetic details relevant to the realizationt of rhotacism, provided by the acoustic analysis of their occurrence, proves its gradient pattern.
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