Abstract
This short paper aims at investigating the causes and contexts that motivate the paragoge phenomenon in European Portuguese. For this end, the phonetic transcription of a speech sample from a Trás-os-Montes’ dialectwas used, illustratingoccurrences and environments in which the phenomenon is observed. The sample was classified according to the dialectal subgroups described by Cintra (1971), and motivators of paragoge, targeted in the present investigation,were outlined. These appear to be related to analogies with the CV syllabic structure, which is especially productive in Portuguese. The results presented here aim at contributing to the initial steps towards a description of paragoge in the investigated dialect.
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