Some notes on phonological phrasing in Brazilian Portuguese

Authors

  • Filomena Sandalo Universidade Estadual de Campinas
  • Hubert Truckenbrodt Universität Tübingen

Keywords:

Prosodic phonology, Stress retraction, Intonation, Phonology-syntax interface

Abstract

In this paper, we argue that phonological phrasing in Brazilian Portuguese is determined by the interaction of right-alignment of syntactic and phonological phrases (Selkirk 1986) and a eurythmic factor of Uniformity (Ghini 1993), which prefers p-phrases of equal prosodic length. The Uniformity requirement shows some unexpected properties. It is not tied to a preferred length of p-phrases, and it appears to be restricted to p-phrases overlapping with the subject and the verb of the clause.

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Published

2018-07-10

How to Cite

Sandalo, F., & Truckenbrodt, H. (2018). Some notes on phonological phrasing in Brazilian Portuguese. DELTA: Documentação E Estudos Em Linguística Teórica E Aplicada, 19(1). Retrieved from https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/delta/article/view/38088

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 1 (2003)

Section

Articles