The Prosodic Word in European Portuguese

Vigário, Marina

doi:10.1515/9783110900927

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“…1 Vigário (2003) notes, however, that in EP word-initial unstressed vowels are never as reduced as non-initial vowels (p. 98) and that, when they are not deleted, non-back non-high stressless vowels in word-final position surface as schwa (p. 104). 2 The experiment described in this paper was conducted in .…”

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Pretonic Vowel Reduction in Brazilian Portuguese: Harmony and Dispersion

2016

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics

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(2004), among others. We investigated various reflexes of prosodic prominence across four positions: tonic, pretonic, posttonic, and word-final. The height of the low vowel /a/ in these contexts was also determined. We found that while duration readily distinguished among the first three positions (tonic > pretonic > posttonic), it failed to differentiate posttonic from final. Intensity was a better discriminator across all four positions. We also documented a height harmony between pretonic mid vowels and the following tonic resulting in a seven-vowel pretonic inventory that parallels the tonic*. The implications of these findings for metrical prominence and dispersion accounts of vowel reduction are considered.

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Pretonic Vowel Reduction in Brazilian Portuguese: Harmony and Dispersion

2016

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics

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“…However, such an analysis would go beyond the scope of this work and has to be addressed in future research. Such a future experiment should include prosodic variation, due to the important role of word and sentence prosody on vowel deletion in both varieties (Bisol, 2000;Frota, 2000;Bisol, 2002;Vigário, 2003). Word frequency had a crucial influence on the Portuguese syllable in previous work (Freitas et al, 2006) and should also be controlled in a future experiment.…”

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Portuguese Lexical Clusters and CVC Sequences in Speech Perception and Production

Cunha¹

2015

Phonetica

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Thi s paper investigates similarities between lexical consonant clusters and CVC sequences differing in the presence or absence of a lexical vowel in speech perception and production in two Portuguese varieties. The frequent high vowel deletion in the European variety (EP) and the realization of intervening vocalic elements between lexical clusters in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) may minimize the contrast between lexical clusters and CVC sequences in the two Portuguese varieties. In order to test this hypothesis we present a perception experiment with 72 participants and a physiological analysis of 3-dimensional movement data from 5 EP and 4 BP speakers. The perceptual results confirmed a gradual confusion of lexical clusters and CVC sequences in EP, which corresponded roughly to the gradient consonantal overlap found in production.

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“…SANTOS, 2003) e diversos trabalhos reveem Nespor e Vogel (GUIMARÃES, 1997;FROTA, 2000;VIGÁRIO, 2003) à luz dos avanços em sintaxe.…”

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Desambiguização de sentenças na interface fonologia-sintaxe: resultados perceptuais / Sentence disambiguation in the phonology-syntax interface: results from a comprehension study

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Santos

2017

Rev. Est. Ling.

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Resumo: Este artigo analisa a compreensão no português brasileiro da pista prosódica de duração de sílabas em sentenças ambíguas do tipo SN1- V-SN2-Atributo (e.g. ‘A mãe encontrou a filha suada’). Fonologicamente, tais leituras podem ser explicadas pelo fato de o atributo poder ou não se juntar a seu núcleo na construção do domínio da frase fonológica (NESPOR; VOGEL, 1986), e de que, se há fronteira de domínios, um alongamento é esperado (FOUGERON; KEATING, 1997). O estudo propõe que o alongamento é um fenômeno opcional no PB. Um experimento de picture matching é aplicado para versões de estruturas de aposição não local e local de nove sentenças. Os resultados apontaram para diferenças significativas conforme o tipo de estrutura sintática. As diferentes sentenças também se mostraram relevantes para a interpretação de que, ainda que o alongamento seja opcional na produção, uma vez realizado, ele serve como condutor para uma interpretação não local. Os resultados para uma interpretação local parecem decorrer da interação entre o Princípio de Late Closure (FRAZIER, 1979) com a estrutura prosódica da sentença. Por fim, a análise evidencia que estruturas do tipo small clause interferem no processo de alongamento e, assim, este artigo defendeue isso ocorre porque a reestruturação prosódica é bloqueada neste tipo de estrutura sintática.Palavras-chave: aposição local; aposição não local; fronteira prosódica; alongamento; small clauses.Abstract: This article discusses the comprehension of syllable duration in Brazilian Portuguese as a prosodic cue in ambiguous sentences with a NP1-V-NP2-attribute structure (e.g. ‘The mother has found her daughter sweating’). Phonologically, interpretations of the above-mentioned structure can be explained by the fact that attributes may or may not join the head in the construction of the phonological phrase domain (NESPOR; VOGEL, 1986), and because lengthening is expected when there is a boundary (FOUGERON; KEATING, 1997). We suggest that lengthening exists in BP as an optional phenomenon. We ran a picture matching experiment, with versions of structures with high and low attachment of 9 sentences. Overall results showed significant differences for type of syntactic structure. The different sentences also played a role in the results, indicating that although lengthening is optional in production, once it has been performed, it leads to a high attachment reading. The Low Attachment Principle (FRAZIER, 1979) seems to play a role in the results for sentences with low attachment. Finally, the findings signal also that sentences which allow small clause constructions may interfere with the lengthening process; and we argue that this happens because restructuring is blocked in this kind of structure.Keywords: low attachment; high attachment; prosodic boundary; lengthening; small clauses.

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The Prosodic Word in European Portuguese

Cited by 123 publications

References 40 publications

Pretonic Vowel Reduction in Brazilian Portuguese: Harmony and Dispersion

Pretonic Vowel Reduction in Brazilian Portuguese: Harmony and Dispersion

Portuguese Lexical Clusters and CVC Sequences in Speech Perception and Production

Desambiguização de sentenças na interface fonologia-sintaxe: resultados perceptuais / Sentence disambiguation in the phonology-syntax interface: results from a comprehension study

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