The structural motivation of palatalization

The structural motivation of palatalization

This paper is about the structural motivation of the palatalization of coronal stops in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and cross-linguistically. It aims to explain why (a) coronal stop consonants are the typical targets of the process, (b) coronal stops are the only targets of the process in BP, (c) the...

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Main Authors: Elisa Battisti, Ben Hermans
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística 2020-06-01
Series:Fórum Linguístico
Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/forum/article/view/72865
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