This work presents a phonologically and phonetically based description for Portuguese Beira Interior regional speech. In particular, the performance of a poststressed vowel system is shown. We also describe the solutions adopted to build a phonological-phonetic inventory. We explore the view that Quantal Theory and Optimality Theory can support the phonological representation of phone inventories, which could describe languages by using their frequency distribution and providing a feasible alternative to be incorporated in the development of speech systems. The resulting phone inventory is supported by statistical measures obtained from the analysis of an oral corpus. The major goal is to present the allophones which are more or less perceived in speech continuum in order to give a code with which an algorithm will match in a language model of Portuguese speech processing, including regional varieties. Our belief is that formalised knowledge of pronunciation variants will also be acquired by analysing very large amounts of data in the future and will ultimately contribute to improving Portuguese multi-pronunciation modelling, taking minority speech into account.
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Pub Date : 2002-01-01DOI: 10.1515/dig.2002.2002.10.3
Vanderci de Andrade Aguilera
au-del de permettre des observations de caractere general sur le fonctionnement du langage comme un vehicule d' intercommunication sociale, revelent la connexion entre Fhistoire linguistique et les facteurs geographiques, voire geopolitiques: ils permettent, aussi, de prouver que les innovations dans les langues proviennent de certains centres et que leur diffusion s'arrete en face de certaines limites qui sont constituees par des fleuves, des montagnes, des frontieres politiques, administratives et ecclesiastiques.
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Pub Date : 1996-01-01DOI: 10.1515/dig.1996.1996.4.87
Silke Van Ness
The Pennsylvania German dialect in West Virginia serves as a linguistic laboratory where variation and changes can be studied that are attributable to isolation, language contact, and the preservation of archaisms. In 1930 Schirmunski suggested that speech islands established as recently as one hundred or one hundred and fifty years ago offer a unique opportunity as a "sprachwissenschaftliches Laboratorium" a laboratory for language change because their geographic and linguistic isolation reflects developments which required many centuries in the homeland (Schirmunski 1930: 113). While the colonial German of the primary settlements in Pennsylvania has been extensively documented (cf. fieldwork by Buffington 1937; Reed 1941; Seifert 1941; Frye 1941; Raith 1982; Louden 1988; Dorian 1989; Huffines 1989), research on Pennsylvania German in secondary areas has not received the same amount of attention. This is particularly true of the Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia and its extended territory, Pendleton County, West Virginia (cf. Kyger 1964; Pulte 1971; Kehr 1979). Yet Pendleton County offers extremely insightful data on language development in isolation and contact situations. Based on findings from this early speech island, the study will document that (I) the presence of archaisms in West Virginia is evidence of dialect features in their preleveled form and (II) that contact induced changes conform to rules of English phonotactics. Examples from phonology are used to illustrate most conspicuously the notion of a linguistic laboratory'.
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