Dominios prosodicos no portugues do Brasil : implicações para a prosodia e para a aplicação de processos fonologicos

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2002

RESUMO

This thesis deals with the prosodic structure of Brazilian Portuguese and with the comparison between Brazilians Portuguese s structure and European Portuguese s structute. In order to make a comparison between the two, we are considering intonational, segmental and rithmic evidences of prosodic, that are hierarchically superior to the phonological word. These domains are: phonological phrase, intonational phrase and phonological utterance. In Brazilian Portuguese, no segmental evidences was found; only intonational evidences on these three prosodic domains. This differs from European Portuguese which has both intonational and segmental evidences for intonational phrase as an important prosodic domain. The intonational evidences in Brazilian Portuguese challenge us with the issue of theoretically understanding the phonetic manifestations of pitch variations - which express phonological relations - that can happen between prosodic constituents at different structure levels. Some considerations were aiso made on the relationship between phonological processes and rhythm. These reflections were based on the results from occurring the following six processes: fricative voicing, tapping, syllable degemination, vowel merger, vowel deletion and semi-vocalization. There are indications that Brazilian Portuguese is more a syllable-timed language than. European Portuguese. We argue that these rhythmic differences are related to the prosodic hierarchic structural differences of each variety of Portuguese. The evidences found allow us to demonstrate how the prosodic structure is relevant in explaining the prosodic characteristics of Brazilian and European Portuguese

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ritmo acentos e acentuação lingua portuguesa entonação (fonetica) intonation phonetic fonetica rhytm

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