Prosodization of prepositional clitics and prosodic words in Brazilian Portuguese: Investigation of phonetic cues

Autor(es)

da Silva, Lilian Maria ^[1] ; Tenani, Luciani Ester ^[1]

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Sao Paulo State Univ, Sao Paulo - Brazil

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: JOURNAL OF PORTUGUESE LINGUISTICS; v. 20, JUN 10 2021.
• Citações Web of Science: 0

Resumo

In this paper, syllable duration (Vowel-to-Vowel unit) and F0 variation are analyzed as cues to distinguish the prosodization of prepositional clitic-host sequence from a syllable within a prosodic word in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). A production task was created to assess 1) whether the syllable production time helps to identify a clitic boundary and a word boundary and 2) whether the F0 configuration aligned to a clitic syllable differs from the F0 configuration aligned to a syllable in a word boundary. The results show that: 1) the syllable duration measurement supports the hypothesis that there is no distinction between prepositional clitics and a syllable which is part of a prosodic word (PW); 2) the pitch range of tonal events associated to the syllable that bears the PW boundary differs from that associated to the syllables that bear a clitic-host sequence boundary. Based on these results we argued that the prepositional clitics are prosodized as a syllable adjoined to its host. This interpretation leads us to suggest that the relevant domain for prepositional clitic prosodization is between PW and PPh (Phonological Phrase) in BP. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 14/18050-7 - Grafias não-convencionais de clíticos fonológicos em fronteiras de palavras
• Beneficiário: Lilian Maria da Silva
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Brasil - Doutorado
• Processo FAPESP: 15/23238-8 - Investigação da prosodização de preposições monossilábicas do português brasileiro
• Beneficiário: Lilian Maria da Silva
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Exterior - Estágio de Pesquisa - Doutorado