33.502, Diss: Portuguese; Romance; Discourse Analysis; Phonetics; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics: Author: Christiani P Thompson: '' Tipo, Brazil's 'like': Synchronic functional and phonetic analyses of nominal, grammatical, and discourse functions''

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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 18:47:11
From: Christiani Thompson [thompson.christiani at usask.ca]
Subject: Tipo, Brazil's 'like': Synchronic functional and phonetic analyses of nominal, grammatical, and discourse functions

 
Institution: University of Saskatchewan 
Program: PhD in Applied Linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2021 

Author: Christiani P Thompson

Dissertation Title: Tipo, Brazil's 'like': Synchronic functional and phonetic
analyses of nominal, grammatical, and discourse functions 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Phonetics
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Portuguese (por)

Language Family(ies): Romance


Dissertation Director(s):
Jesse Stewart

Dissertation Abstract:

Previous research in Brazilian Portuguese has indicated that the noun tipo
'type,' 'kind' is undergoing grammaticalization (Bittencourt, 1999;
Lima-Hernandes, 2005). Review of the literature, however, reveals a limited
number of studies that provide an account of its current state in
conversational speech. Moreover, research on the grammaticalization of tipo
has been mostly limited to the examination of its multifunctionality
(Bittencourt, 1999; Laurentino,2016; Lima-Hernandes, 2005), resulting in a gap
as to how the processes of grammaticalization may be reflected on its use and
production.

Using data from the Projeto Sociolingüístico Contemporâneo Brasileiro corpus
(Thompson & Onosson, 2016), comprised of sociolinguistic interviews conducted
with teenage public-school students in Rio de Janeiro, this dissertation
presents the findings of a study that examined the current state of tipo in
conversational discourse. An innovative multimethodological approach was
employed aiming to address tipo's functional diversity. Distributional,
functional, acoustic, and perceptual investigations were conducted with the
goal to gain insight into some of the processes tipo is undergoing as it sheds
its nominal properties and acquires new grammatical, discourse, and pragmatic
functions. 

Results reveal a functional expansion of tipo, which was found to be
performing roles such as a preposition, a conjunction, and a discourse marker
among others. More notably, results from a subsequent acoustic analysis reveal
consistent differences in pronunciation between nominal and non-nominal forms,
suggesting that as tipo expands to perform new functions, speakers are
encoding such changes at the segment level. A discrimination task conducted
with 98 teenage students also confirmed that speakers are able to discriminate
nominal from non-nominal forms, suggesting that other processes beyond
durational differences may be playing a role in the grammaticalization of that
noun.




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