Prosodic Word and Morphological Derivation in Brazilian Portuguese

Prosodic analysis of Brazilian Portuguese attitudes

This paper presents the prosodic analysis of a corpus of Brazilian Portuguese attitudes. Attitudes are separated between the social and propositional categories, and performed either with an assertive or an interrogative modality. Previous studies show the particular relevance of prosodic cues for propositional attitudes, while visual cues are more relevant for social ones. This paper shows tha...

Prosodic evidences to sentential negation in Brazilian portuguese

Brazilian Portuguese (BP) permits at least three kinds of sentential negation Neg1 (Não VP), Neg2 (Não VP Não) and Neg3 (VP Não). The theme of this paper is the nature of this variation. We will try to demonstrate that at least in some contexts Neg2 exhibit properties associated with presupposed denial, reflecting fundamental differences in relation to canonical negation (Neg1). Some contexts s...

Verbal Stress Assignment in Brazilian Portuguese and the Prosodic Interpretation of Segmental Sequences

This paper offers a contribution towards the prosodic interpretation of segmental sequences. Focus will be given to consonantal sequences where epenthesis may optionally occur in Brazilian Portuguese, as in o[bs]truir or o[bis]truir “to obstruct”. We will show that some consonantal sequences have distinct representations from others, being that the difference in representation has an impact on ...

Bare Nouns in Brazilian Portuguese

Prosodic Inheritance And Morphological Generalisations

Prosodic Inheritance (PI) morphology provides uniform treatment of both concatenative and non-concatenative morphological and phonological generalisations using default inheritance. Models of an extensive range of German Umlaut and Arabic intercalation facts, implemented in DATR, show that the PI approach also covers 'hard cases' more homogeneously and more extensively than previous computation...