Phonological Theory and Language Variation
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https://doi.org/10.22481/el.v3i1.1008Keywords:
Phonological theory, Variation, Perception, Production, OTAbstract
As análises lingüísticas têm exibido, majoritariamente, desde o estruturalismo, uma inclinação por modelos de produção. Pouca atenção tem sido dada à percepção. Além disso, a variação lingüística não tem sido a preocupação maior dos modelos teóricos propostos. Na verdade, ela tem sido excluída da maioria deles. Recentemente a teoria fonológica vem se ocupando da variação lingüística, mas, novamente, pendendo pela produção (na maioria das vezes) ou pela percepção. O que se pretende, aqui, é oferecer um esboço de modelo teórico que seja capaz, a partir da junção da produção com a percepção, de lidar com os fatos da variação. O modelo, operacionalizável em termos dos mecanismos da Teoria da Otimalidade, pretende, com base em princípios mais gerais da língua, alocar a variação num nível abstrato (percepção) e deixar a sua implementação (produção), no uso, sensível ao par {indivíduo-item lexical}.
PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Teoria Fonológica. Variação lingüística. Percepção. Produção. OT.
ABSTRACT
Linguistic analyses have shown, beginning with the structuralist school, a major tendency towards production models, with little attention to perception. Besides this, linguistic variation has not been one of the main subjects of these theoretical models; in fact it has been excluded from most of them. It is only recently that phonological theory has turned its attention to linguistic variation but, again, either to production, most of the time, or to perception, in a few cases. It is our goal here to draw an outline of a theoretical model which is capable to deal with the facts of variation from the standpoint of production and perception. This model, which can be formalized in terms of the OT apparatus, and on the basis of general principles of the language, intends to allocate variation to an abstract level (perception) and let its implementation (production), in language use, sensitive to the pair {individual-lexical item}.
KEYWORDS: Phonological theory. Variation. Perception. Production. OT.
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