Bootstrapping in the acquisition of word stress in Brazilian Portuguese
This paper deals with the acquisition of word stress in Brazilian Portuguese. In the course of acquisition, children use several strategies to mark stress prominence before the adult algorithm of primary stress is used productively. I argue that the prominences found in children´s early utterances d...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2003-06-01
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| Series: | Journal of Portuguese Linguistics |
| Online Access: | http://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/articles/37 |