出版社：EDUFU - Editora da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
摘要：We examine the pattern of opaque nasalization in two invented language games (ludlings), as played by volunteers who were native speakers of the dialect of Brazilian Portuguese spoken in the city of Salvador.One group of speakers showed an opaque pattern, in which nasalization over-applied in the reduplicative language game Língua do Pê but under-applied in the infixing language game Língua do Ki.These results have three consequences: (i) they provide further support for an abstract Multiprecedenceand-Linearization representation (Raimy, 2000a,b) for reduplication and infixation, such that infixation starts and ends between two segments that transitively precede each other, while reduplication does not; (ii) they demonstrate that, for a significant subgroup of our experimental participants, nasalization in Northeastern Brazilian Portuguese is an active rule, and not simply a lexicalized pattern; (iii) they provide support for a novel condition on rule application: the iota-operator of Russell (1905), which imposes a uniqueness condition on structural descriptions.
