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Marques, Luciana Ferreira – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Vowel nasality is the most controversial phonological aspect of Brazilian Portuguese. Scholars suggest the oral-nasal vowel distinction may not exist. A consonant-like nasal resonance presence at the vowel's right edge (the nasal appendix) might make nasal vowels the product of a contextual vowel nasalization rule. Others suggest that the appendix…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Portuguese, Vowels, Intonation
Silveira Neto, Agripino De Souza – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Brazilian Portuguese (henceforth BP) has for long been considered as a Null-subject language due to its variability in regards to subject expression (e.g. "Era bom porque eu diminuia de peso...era muito gordinha" "That was good because then I could lose some weight...(I) was a bit chubby." C33:179). Such variability has been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Portuguese, Pragmatics, Sentence Structure