La freqüència d'aparició sil·làbica com a eina d'anàlisi lingüística

• Autores: Laia Rosàs Redondo
• Localización: Catalan Review: international journal of Catalan culture, ISSN 0213-5949, Nº. 22, 2008, págs. 309-328
• Idioma: catalán
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• Resumen

  • This essay uses frequency of appearance as a tool of linguistic analysis to look at the syllable structure of Central Catalan. Analysis of syllable frequency has been conducted on an oral text produced by an speaker of this variety of Catalan; the solutions that appear in the phonetic version of the text have been tallied and classified in terms of consonant-vowel (CV, VC, CCV, etc.) on the one hand, and as concrete segments on the other (liquid + vowel, vowel + obstruent, etc.). The results have been studied according to George N. Clements (1990), The Role of the Sonority Cycle in Core Syllabification, in which degrees of complexity are assigned to different syllable types. This study attempts to determine to what extent the complexity of a syllable structure may be proportionate to its frequency of appearance in Catalan.