Phonology of portuguese: when two varieties diverge

Camila Witt Ulrich
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Abstract

Vigário presents phonological differences between Brazilian (BP) and European Portuguese (EP) through ten topics related to processes in the lexical and post-lexical levels. In general, the author shows that European Portuguese presents productive processes in the higher levels of the prosodic hierarchy, and not in the lower constituents, as the segment or the syllable. For this reason, we have a great number of vowel reductions in unstressed positions, for example. Meanwhile, the processes in Brazilian Portuguese apply, in general, in the lower levels of the hierarchy, which are purely phonological. As examples we can mention the filling of empty positions due to syllabic well-formedness or the smallest number of vowel reductions in relation to EP. Although both varieties present similarities in relation to the lexical phonology, in earlier levels, they exhibit distinct phonological profiles in relation to the post-lexical phonology.

Full-text of the article is available for this locale: Português (Brasil).

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