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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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:5aebec98a20841708e28f7a463ba15e12021-11-27T10:46:39ZProminence Augmentation via Nasalization in Brazilian Portuguese10.5565/rev/catjl.2911695-68852014-9719https://doaj.org/article/5aebec98a20841708e28f7a463ba15e12019-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/291https://doaj.org/toc/1695-6885https://doaj.org/toc/2014-9719This 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.Andrew NevinsPaula Pinheiro CostaUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelonaarticlespontaneous nasalizationBrazilian Portugueserhotic metathesisprominence augmentationinitial syllablesPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091CAENCatalan Journal of Linguistics, Vol 18 (2019)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language CA
EN
topic spontaneous nasalization
Brazilian Portuguese
rhotic metathesis
prominence augmentation
initial syllables
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
spellingShingle spontaneous nasalization
Brazilian Portuguese
rhotic metathesis
prominence augmentation
initial syllables
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
Andrew Nevins
Paula Pinheiro Costa
Prominence Augmentation via Nasalization in Brazilian Portuguese
description 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.
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Paula Pinheiro Costa
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title Prominence Augmentation via Nasalization in Brazilian Portuguese
title_short Prominence Augmentation via Nasalization in Brazilian Portuguese
title_full Prominence Augmentation via Nasalization in Brazilian Portuguese
title_fullStr Prominence Augmentation via Nasalization in Brazilian Portuguese
title_full_unstemmed Prominence Augmentation via Nasalization in Brazilian Portuguese
title_sort prominence augmentation via nasalization in brazilian portuguese
publisher Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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