Concerning Jimmy Five’s difficulty in pronouncing the...
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Concerning Jimmy Five’s difficulty in pronouncing the...

Questions 41 and 42 refer to the comic strips below:


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Concerning Jimmy Five’s difficulty in pronouncing the phoneme /r/, the reason why the translator changed the phoneme /l/, in Portuguese, for /w/, in English, is due to the fact that


A

replacing the alveolar consonant by the lateral approximant is the strongest trait of the character’s speech, which in English comes with the labiovelar glide – that’s an incongruity of translation.


B

Jimmy Five’s incapacity of pronouncing in Portuguese the sound of the /r/ phoneme, replacing it with the phoneme /l/, is also present in Maggy’s speech.


C

this choice for the labiovelar glide instead of the alveolar lateral approximant answers to the domestication of the character’s phonological disorder.


D

the character’s speech disorder might occur with any phonemic pair, at random, which justifies the freedom in choosing another consonant, distinct from the source text.