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Martinez, Ruth Maria; Goad, Heather; Dow, Michael – Second Language Research, 2023
Feature-based approaches to acquisition principally focus on second language (L2) learners' ability to perceive non-native consonants when the features required are either contrastively present or entirely absent from the first language (L1) grammar. As features may function contrastively or allophonically in the consonant and/or vowel systems of…
Descriptors: Portuguese, Language Variation, Second Language Learning, Native Language

de Olveira e Silva, Giselle M.; de Macedo, Alzira Tavares – Language Variation and Change, 1992
A study analyzed four major classes of discourse marker in Brazilian Portuguese: "ne" and other requests for feedback; "ai," a sequential connector; "ah, bom," and other turn initiators; and "assim," a marker of explanation. Distribution in various discourse functions and sociodemographic conditioning, and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English