Final unstressed mid-vowels in Brazilian Portuguese of the 19th century

This paper investigated the Brazilian Portuguese final unstressed mid-vowels heightening based on the principles and methodologies of the Sociohistorical Linguistics (Romaine 2009) and according to the principles of the Uniformitarian Principle (Whitney 1867 / Labov 1994 / Labov 2008 / Joseph / Jand...

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Main Author: Eliane da Rosa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of A Coruña 2015-12-01
Series:Revista Galega de Filoloxía
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Online Access:http://revistas.udc.es/index.php/rgf/article/view/rgf.2015.16.0.1382/627