Open AccessProsody and morphology
Author(s) -
Carlos Alexandre Gonçalves
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of speech sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2236-9740
DOI - 10.20396/joss.v5i2.15070
Subject(s) - reduplication , linguistics , morphology (biology) , inflection , word formation , computer science , prosody , morphophonology , imitation , hierarchy , variety (cybernetics) , clipping (morphology) , relevance (law) , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , history , phonology , psychology , philosophy , social psychology , genetics , economics , political science , law , market economy , biology
This text describes the lower units of the prosodic hierarchy (syllables, moraes and feet) to illustrate how these constituents are used by a branch of Morphology called Prosodic Morphology (McCarthy & Prince, 1986 et seq.). It seeks to present the theoretical principles of this type of approach, as well as the advantages of incorporating aspects of the prosodic structure into the morphological description. This paper focuses mainly on a variety of ways in which morphological systems can use this type of phonological structure and it shows the relevance of syllables, moraes and feet in the description of inflexion and word formation processes in natural languages. Finally, it shows that some Portuguese phenomena, such as clipping ('biju' for „bijuteria‟, “imitation jewelry”; „refri‟ for „refrigerante, “soft drink”) and reduplication ('chororô', “excessive crying”) can be satisfactorily described by this model. The idea of the paper is to show that the prosodymorphology "partnership" worked well, managing to solve a series of problems that had hitherto been unanswered or badly solved in morphological literature.