Oral Vowel Reduction in Brazilian Portuguese
In Brazilian Portuguese, there are at least two types of unstressed syllables: pretonic and final. Phonologically, this is shown by the fact that the system of 7 phonemic oral vowels in stressed syllables is decreased to 5 in pretonic syllables and to 3 in unstressed final syllables. This paper exam...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics
1983-01-01
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| Series: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/470 |