TY - JOUR AU - Gutierres, Athany AU - Battisti, Elisa PY - 2020/10/21 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Linguistic and social constraints on the variable palatalization of alveolar stops by derived [i] in a variety of Brazilian Portuguese JF - Revista da ABRALIN JA - RAbralin VL - 19 IS - 1 SE - Publicação contínua 2020 DO - 10.25189/rabralin.v19i1.1580 UR - https://revista.abralin.org/index.php/abralin/article/view/1580 SP - 1-23 AB - <p>In this paper we analyze the variable regressive palatalization of /t, d/ in a variety of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) in contact with Italian dialects. We follow Coetzee’s (2016) assumptions regarding the distinctive effects of grammatical and non-grammatical factors on the grammar. The aim of the study is to test such claims with Noisy-HG (BOERSMA; PATER, 2008; COETZEE, 2012; 2016; COETZEE; KAWAHARA, 2013). Palatalization in BP affects /t, d/ and it is triggered by a following underived /i/ (<em>t/i/jolo</em> ‘brick’, <em>d/i/nheiro</em> ‘money’) or derived [i] from /e/ in unstressed word positions (<em>t/e/atro </em>® <em>t[i]atro</em> ‘theater’<em>, nád/e/ga </em><em>®</em><em> nád[i]ga</em> ‘buttock’). We focus on palatalization triggered by derived [i]. Besides tokens of non-palatalized consonant plus non-raised vowel (<em>[te]atro, ná[de]ga</em>) and of palatalized consonant plus raised vowel (<em>[ʧi]atro, ná[ʤi]ga</em>), the data set comprises tokens of non-palatalized consonant plus raised vowel (<em>[ti]atro, ná[di]ga</em>), an innovation of the analysis regarding prior studies (BATTISTI; DORNELLES FILHO, 2010; GUTIERRES; BATTISTI; DORNELLES FILHO, 2018). The data were extracted from sociolinguistic interviews by Battisti <em>et al.</em> (2007). The linguistic constraints interacting in the grammar of palatalization come from Battisti and Dornelles Filho (2010). The analysis demonstrates that a non-grammatical factor as ‘place of residence’ works as a scaling factor on faithfulness constraints, moving their weights up or down and so affecting the variable raising of /e/, a process that feeds palatalization.</p> ER -