Words written with the initial graphic sequences “es+C” and “ex+C” raise many problematic questions to the phonology of European Portuguese since the production of these sequences is changing (Delgado Martins et al, 1996:302). This paper focuses on the analysis of how the speakers produce and segment these –sC clusters and on the variables that might affect these tasks. Therefore, we conducted a study to perceive what might influence the speakers' phonological knowledge.

Index Terms. phonological knowledge, orthographic knowledge, dialectal traits, variation and change

@inproceedings{henriques10_exling,
  title     = {How learning to read and write influences the dialectal traits in -sc clusters},
  author    = {Isabel Henriques},
  year      = {2010},
  booktitle = {3rd ITRW on Experimental Linguistics},
  pages     = {61--64},
}