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Vowel harmony and vowel-to-vowel coarticulation in two varieties of Brazilian Portuguese

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Author(s):
Plinio A. Barbosa [1] ; Paula Benassi Papa [2] ; Bruno Andrade Silva [3] ; Natasha Mourão [4]
Total Authors: 4
Affiliation:
[1] Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Departamento de Linguística - Brasil
[2] Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Departamento de Linguística - Brasil
[3] Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Departamento de Linguística - Brasil
[4] Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Departamento de Linguística - Brasil
Total Affiliations: 4
Document type: Journal article
Source: DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada; v. 35, n. 2 2019-04-15.
Abstract

ABSTRACT This work presents a study of Brazilian Portuguese pre-stressed vowels in penultimate, trisyllabic words with four informants, two from Campinas region (South-Eastern) and two from Recife (North-Eastern Brazil). A corpus of 58 familiar and unfamiliar words within carrier phrases evaluated the duration, F1 and F2 frequencies of pre-stressed and stressed vowels. The goal was to examine vowel harmony as a possible consequence of Vowel-to-Vowel anticipatory coarticulation. Results point to asymmetries of vowel harmony: its frequency is higher in familiar words; in Recife, the harmony with low and mid-low stressed vowels is more frequent; stressed /u/ triggers less harmony than the other stressed vowels and pre-stressed /e/ undergoes more harmony than pre-stressed /o/. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 12/17869-7 - Edges and asymmetries in phonology and morphology
Grantee:Maria Filomena Spatti Sandalo
Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants