PHONETIC CHANGES EXPLAINED THROUGH SEMANTIC CAUSES
PHONETIC CHANGES EXPLAINED THROUGH SEMANTIC CAUSES

Summary/Abstract: This presentation deals with aspects regarding sound articulation in a word or enunciation, considering co-articulation and the context which may influence the change of the means or place of articulation in view of simplifying the pronunciation of the respective phonetic body. In the second part of the article, we tackle the phonetic changes explained through semantic causes: popular etymology, also called false etymology, sometimes determined by the simple sound or semantic closeness of the words associated to it; contamination, a mixture of similar forms where the newly created word becomes synonymous with its components; lexical deviation, a phenomenon which consists in the conscious use of a term instead of another that shares in common with one or more sounds in the initial syllables.

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