Prominence Augmentation via Nasalization in Brazilian Portuguese

This article aims to demonstrate that dialectal and idiolectal variants of Brazilian Portuguese that exhibit rhotic metathesis (e.g. vidro > vrido ‘glass’), spontaneous nasalization of high vowels (as in diachronic hibernum > inverno ‘winter’ and non-standard ingreja ‘church’), and pretonic vo...

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Main Authors: Andrew Nevins, Paula Pinheiro Costa
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2019-12-01
Series:Catalan Journal of Linguistics
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Online Access:https://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/291