paulo chagas de souza - epêntese, acento primário

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Paulo Chagas de Souza

DL-FFLCH-USP

[email protected]


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Brazilian Portuguese (BP) BP stands apart from most Romance languages in

several points. In phonology, epenthesis of an [i].

Examples with consonant clusters: tcnico,digno,gnomo,pneu,optar, aftaandpsiclogo.

Words with non-sibilant obstruents as their finalsegments. E.g.: dficit, supervite hbitat.


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Epenthesis and Stress

crosslinguisticallyAlderete (1999):

Swahili:

jko kitchen jikni inthe kitchen tket ~ tikti ticket

rtli ~ ratli pound

Dakota: hikt Ikill you maykte you kill me

kastagger khalazy


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Epenthesis and Stress

Primary stress can only be affected by epenthesis in BP

if epenthetic vowel occurs between the stress and thefinal edge of the word (3-syllable window).

Examples:p[i]siclogovs. tc[i]nico.

Unnoticed so far: epenthetic vowel has distinct effectson the prosody of different word classes.


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Epenthesis and stress in non-verbs

Stress in non-verbs unaffected by epenthesis.

digno [digin]

tcnico [tkinik]

dficit [dfisit].violate 3-syllable window


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Epenthesis and stress in verbs Unlike other word classes, verbs may have their

stress affected by epenthesis.

impregna pronounced [ipgin] or [ipegin]

se indigna pronounced [sidigin] or [sidigin]


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Epenthesis and secondary stress crosslinguistically common avoidance of stressing

epenthetic vowels found in non-verbs does not

carry over to secondary stress.

nouns likepsiclogo may be pronounced withsecondary stress on the epenthetic vowel:

[pisiklog]


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Noun paradigms Nouns rarely have stress shifts.

casa casas, livro livros, cidade cidades

mrtir mrtires, rptil rpteis

lpis lpis, nibus nibus

Possible only for proparoxytones in -r:

jniorjuniores

jniors carter caracteres caractere

Jpiter - Jupteres? Jpiters?


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Verbal paradigms Extense paradigms: several tenses (present, perfect,

imperfect, future, future of the preterite), two moods,tenseless forms.

As few as one suffix. Ex.: com.pr-a.

Up to 4 suffixes. Ex.: compr-a-r-a-mos.

All verbs include stress shift in their paradigms:

com.pra com.pra.va com.pra.ri.a.


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Verbal vs. non-verbal paradigms

com.pra l.gi.co

com.pra.va l.gi.ca

com.pra.ri.a. l.gi.cas


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Bibliography

Alderete, John (1999). Head-Dependence in Stress-

Epenthesis Interaction. ROA-453. Bybee, Joan (2001). Phonology and Language Use.

Cambridge University Press.

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