Os domínios prosódicos e a duração de sílabas no português brasileiro (Prosodic domains and syllable duration in Brazilian Portuguese)

This paper discusses syllable duration with respect to different prosodic domains and presents additional tools to analyze syntactic structures through phonological cues. Our results show that post-tonic syllables are longer at the intonational phrase boundary but not at other prosodic boundaries. T...

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Bibliographic Details
Authors: Santos, Raquel Santana; Leal, Eneida Goes
Format: Article
Status:Published version
Publication date:2010
Country:Brasil
Institution:UESB
Repository:Estudos da Língua(gem)
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.periodicos2.uesb.br:article/1131
Online Access:https://periodicos2.uesb.br/index.php/estudosdalinguagem/article/view/1131
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Domínios Prosódicos
Duração
Interface Fonologia-Sintaxe
Prosodic Domains
Duration
Syntax-Phonology Interface
Description
Summary:This paper discusses syllable duration with respect to different prosodic domains and presents additional tools to analyze syntactic structures through phonological cues. Our results show that post-tonic syllables are longer at the intonational phrase boundary but not at other prosodic boundaries. The results also show that the type of vowel involved does not affect the duration of the syllable, but consonant voicing does. Finally, we show that both real words and logatoms do not affect the results. KEYWORDS: Prosodic Domains. Duration. Syntax-Phonology Interface.