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Some notes on phonological phrasing in Brazilian Portuguese

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Author(s):
Filomena Sandalo [1] ; Hubert Truckenbrodt [2]
Total Authors: 2
Affiliation:
[1] Unicamp
[2] Universität Tübingen
Total Affiliations: 2
Document type: Journal article
Source: DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada; v. 19, n. 1, p. 1-30, 2003-00-00.
Abstract

In this paper, we argue that phonological phrasing in Brazilian Portuguese is determined by the interaction of right-alignment of syntactic and phonological phrases (Selkirk 1986) and a eurythmic factor of Uniformity (Ghini 1993), which prefers p-phrases of equal prosodic length. The Uniformity requirement shows some unexpected properties. It is not tied to a preferred length of p-phrases, and it appears to be restricted to p-phrases overlapping with the subject and the verb of the clause. (AU)