Abstract
Assuming prosody is responsible for characterizing the rhythmic and melodic aspects of a language (Ladd, 2004) and, thus, composing its phonological structure (Nespor and Vogel, 1986; Selkirk, 1984), it becomes essential to address it from a theoretical phonological perspective, beyond its phonetic-acoustic aspects. However, there is a noticeable lack of studies from this perspective on B…