Reduplication and copy-vowel epenthesis in ludlings: morphological domains (‘p language’) vs phonological domains (‘Alberto Roberto effect’)
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https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2024.v20n3a64945Abstract
This text, from a theoretical-descriptive perspective, expounds over a rule-based cross-analysis of two related phenomena, reduplication, which consists of a copy of segments of a base-word in order to fill a RED-morpheme, and copy-vowel epenthesis, which is a copy of segments of a base-word for correcting some phonotactics requirements in phonetic surface, in language games or ludlings (Laycock (1972); Bagemihl (1989, 1996). Based on data extracted from ludlings, we follow the arguments (but not his theoretical bias) proposed by Kawahara (2007) in his OT-based typological analysis of these two superficially-similar phenomena in natural languages, positing this work in the favor of ludlings as a good deal of evidence on phonological properties and phenomena. After fulfilling the first objective, it will be possible to achieve the secondary goal, describing the variant of the Brazilian ‘p-language’ that shows reduplication, as well as to introduce a stylistic resource of creation of a character known as Alberto Roberto, whose particular way of saying words has a specific case of echo-epenthesis. The data gathered here was extracted from several sources, as videos on YouTube, academic papers, social media, as Facebook and Instagram.
Keywords: Morphological domains. Phonological domains. Reduplication. Copy-Vowel Epenthesis. P-language.
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