Mid Vowel Alternations in Verbal Stems in Brazilian Portuguese
This paper proposes an alternative analysis for mid vowel alternations in verbal stems in BP, treating them as vowel coalescence, where two input vowels unite into a single output vowel that shares features of its ancestor, in the framework of Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky, 1993; McCarth...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2003-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Portuguese Linguistics |
| Online Access: | http://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/articles/29 |