The Vocalic Nasality in Spanish: A Study of Perception

• Autor(a) principal: Brisolara, Luciene Bassols
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Matzenauer, Carmen Lúcia Barreto
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista da ANPOLL (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistadaanpoll.emnuvens.com.br/revista/article/view/1102
• topic: Spanish as first language; Perception; Vowel nasalization; Allophony; Espanhol como Língua Materna; Percepção; Nasalização vocálica; Alofonia

This study intends to investigate the perception of the vowel /a/ of the Spanish, in nasal contexts, by uruguayans, considering that the vocalic nasalization has an allophonic nature in this language and that, according to Akerberg(1999-2000)and Herrero de Haro (2011), is not perceived by native speakers of Spanish. The corpus for the research was a sample of nine native Spanish speakers aged 18-23, residents of Montevideo and Maldonado. Participants were submitted to four perceptual tests - three of discrimination and one of identification - created in the TP software specifically for the present study. The analysis of the process of perception of the low vowel was based on the studies of Boomershineet al. (2008) and Herrero de Haro (2011), including statistical treatment of the results. The analysis of the data indicated that, even allophonic, vowel nasality is perceived in a certain index and, although neverreaching full percentage, perception is more facilitated in discrimination tests than in the identification test. The results also point out that the accuracy of this type of perception seems to be independent of the stress of the syllable that hosts the vowel.