Gradient and categorical assimilation of pretonic vowels in Brazilian Portuguese

This paper addresses the acoustic realisations of the pretonic vowels /e, o/ that have been previously reported to undergo regressive vowel harmony in Brazilian Portuguese. It examines how the height of pretonic /e, o/ is affected by the phonological and phonetic height of the adjacent stressed vowe...

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Main Authors: Magnun Rochel Madruga, Silke Hamann, Maria Bernadete Marques Abaurre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2020-11-01
Series:Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
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Online Access:https://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/articles/234