[PDF] Top 20 The Prosodic Word in European Portuguese

... examples in the literature of phonological processes that occur between words and have lexical properties, ...processes in different languages can be found, for example, in Hayes (1990), ... See full document

... quality) in a given language to contrast lexical items may also impact on the degree of speakers’ stress ...instance, in Finnish and English variations in duration are used not only to signal ... See full document

... at the word level (Gussenhoven, 2004; Ladd, ...via the addition of another level of ...between word stress and pitch accent occurs when every stressed syllable tends to be pitch accented, ... See full document

... as the acoustic correlates for stress are concerned – in the absence of segmental cues (vowel reduction) portuguese speakers may use suprasegmental cues for stress perception (duration); ... See full document

... of the References, and will be briefly reviewed ...from the Dicionário Universal Fundamental (Texto Editora, 1998), that was selected because of its ...size. In the process of compiling ... See full document

... developed the Medical Language Extraction and Encoding system ...at the New York Presbyterian Hospital and at Columbia University, is mainly semantically driven and is used not only to extract information ... See full document

... Singulars in EP, unlike those in other languages (in Kriol, for instance) do not accept different interpretations according to their context of ...(in the common sense): prototypical or ... See full document

... types, in EP, declaratives are the most studied sentence type ...2007). The intonational contour generally associated with a declarative is a falling one, expressed as a prenuclear H* (in ... See full document

... other in duration, giving the illusion 21 of ...Brazilian Portuguese, Polish) (Dauer 1987, Nespor 1990). Consequently, the discussion of the organization of languages in rhythmic ... See full document

... of the Portuguese free radio movement while at the same time presenting it as a part of the Southern European ...use the concept of media system provided by Hallin and Mancini – ... See full document

... influence the extraction of segmental and suprasegmental measures in speech recordings during the speaker identification task, such as voice disguise, signal distortion and background ...role ... See full document

... are, in the words of Friedmann, Belleti & Rizzi (2009), selective, since they depend on the structural similarity between the A' moved element and the intervening ...Moreover, ... See full document

... to the spatial distribution, as has been noted, the PIC is the most frequent and widespread construction in the whole territory with the perception verbs, followed by the ... See full document

... indicators in terms of age and formal education of individual producers are particularly ...classes in young, middle and old aged (less than 35, between, 35 and 65, and more than 65), the largest is ... See full document

... Since in the current experiment the sentence started to play as soon as the paired pictures reappeared on screen (event 7 of each test trial), gaze data was extracted considering three ... See full document

... be the most significant ones in terms of demand are: (a) demographic chang- es: related to the transformation of family structures, which involves declining birth rates, a fall in the ... See full document

... By the end of this section, it was possible to infer that the occurrences of adverbs in –mente both in AP as in BP present some evidence to be classified as independent, autonomous ... See full document

... studies the leverage, cost of debt servicing ability and structure of debt maturity of large Portuguese firms, over the pre-crisis (2006-2009) and post-crisis (2010- 2013) periods through a ... See full document

... Since the beginning of the global financial crisis a substantial literature has extensively discussed and analysed the underlying causes and their ...example, the European Commission ... See full document

... disyllabic word form was chosen because this is the most frequent word shape in EP, both in adult speech and child directed speech (above 40% - Vigário, Freitas & Frota 2006; Frota, ... See full document