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This study presents a systematic literature review of the monophthongization of the diphthong in Brazilian Portuguese. Monophthongization is a sound change by which a diphthong becomes a single vowel. Thus, the output of, for example, the word beira (‘edge’) can be b[eɪ]ra or b[e]ra. Our primary sources, 10 Master’s theses that analyzed this phenomenon using quantitative sociolinguistic methodologies, focus on individually describing a region’s variety of Portuguese. However, the results were never systematically related to each other. Consequently, these works do not present a comprehensive overview of the production of in Brazilian Portuguese. Therefore, this systematic review gathers and unifies information dispersed in these studies, aiming to offer an overview of this optional phenomenon. The overall results demonstrate that the following context was the relevant linguistic variable, while the speaker’s educational level and dialect variation are the relevant non-linguistic variables for the application of the monophthongization rule.
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Créée en 1966 par R. Barthes, J. Dubois, A.-J. Greimas, B. Pottier, B. Quemada, N. Ruwet, la revue Langages a été dirigée scientifiquement par D. Leeman jusqu’en 2009. Langages met à la disposition d’une communauté scientifique pluridisciplinaire, sans exclusive théorique ou méthodologique, les résultats des recherches contemporaines de pointe, originales, nationales et internationales, menées dans l’ensemble des domaines couverts par les sciences du langage entendues au sens le plus large du terme, y compris dans leurs interfaces avec leurs disciplines connexes (psycholinguistique, traitement automatique du langage, didactique, traduction…). Langages accueille toutes les thématiques reflétant les préoccupations qui dominent selon les époques ou les mutations disciplinaires, ainsi que les bilans de champs linguistiques particuliers assortis de visée prospective. Langages édite chaque année 4 volumes, chacun sous la responsabilité scientifique d’un coordinateur qui sollicite les contributeurs, français ou étrangers, experts du thème traité. Les volumes proposés sont soumis à une double expertise : les propositions de numéros sont agréées par un comité scientifique international multi-disciplinaire ; les volumes dans leur état final sont expertisés par des spécialistes de la thématique abordée français et étrangers, extérieurs au comité.
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