Pretonic Vowel Reduction in Brazilian Portuguese: Harmony and Dispersion

This paper follows up on some of the phonetic assumptions underlying earlier discussions in the phonological literature of the vowel reduction in Brazilian Portuguese such as Crosswhite (2004) and Flemming (2004), among others. We investigated various reflexes of prosodic prominence across four posi...

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Main Authors: Michael Kenstowicz, Filomena Sandalo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2016-03-01
Series:Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
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Online Access:http://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/articles/7