Secondary stress, intensity and fundamental frequency in Brazilian Portuguese

This paper investigates whether values of acoustical correlates of pretonic syllables adjacent to the one(s) perceived as bearing secondary stress could predict such perception in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) data. In order to pursue this goal, a comparison is made between pretonic syllables perceived...

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Main Authors: Flaviane Fernandes-Svartman, Maria Bernadete M. Abaurre, V. A. González-López, Marta C. C. Bianchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2012-12-01
Series:Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
Online Access:http://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/articles/84