GRAMMATICAL GENDER MARKING ON NEW FORMATIONS IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE
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https://doi.org/10.9771/ell.i72.45847Keywords:
Grammatical Gender, Gender Assignment, Loanwords, Pseudowords, MorphophonologyAbstract
This work investigates factors involved in the assignment of grammatical gender to new nouns in Brazilian Portuguese, assuming the role of speakers' internalized knowledge concerning rules and patterns of the native language. We analyzed loanwords borrowed from English to Portuguese, as well as data from an experiment where speakers had to assign gender to pseudowords. The results show that, in the case of English loanwords, semantic analogy prevails as a criterion for gender assignment, due to the phonotactics of English, which inhibits phonological endings associated to gender in Portuguese. Among pseudowords, formal criteria appeared as relevant, where endings related to feminine have been assigned feminine in the tests. Results suggest systemacity in the assignment of gender to new words, where constraints of different natures interact.
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