Prominence Augmentation via Nasalization in Brazilian Portuguese

This article aims to demonstrate that dialectal and idiolectal variants of Brazilian Portuguese that exhibit rhotic metathesis (e.g. vidro > vrido ‘glass’), spontaneous nasalization of high vowels (as in diachronic hibernum > inverno ‘winter’ and non-standard ingreja ‘church’), and pretonic vo...

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Autores principales: Andrew Nevins, Paula Pinheiro Costa
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Publicado: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/5aebec98a20841708e28f7a463ba15e1
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Sumario:This article aims to demonstrate that dialectal and idiolectal variants of Brazilian Portuguese that exhibit rhotic metathesis (e.g. vidro > vrido ‘glass’), spontaneous nasalization of high vowels (as in diachronic hibernum > inverno ‘winter’ and non-standard ingreja ‘church’), and pretonic vowel lowering of mid-vowels are all instantiations of the same process: prominence-boosting in stressed, secondary-stressed, or word-initial positions.