1st Meeting of students of the Mind & Brain College

2 Dezembro 2015, 14:00 • Sónia Frota

The students were invited to participate in the 1^st meeting of students of the Mind & brain College of the University of Lisbon.

Sound variation: inventories

27 Novembro 2015, 14:00 • Sónia Frota

Sound variation in European Portuguese: phonetics and phonology.

Readings:

- Mateus & Andrade (2000)

- Segura (2013) Variedades dialectais do Português Europeu. Gramática do Português, vol I. FCG/CLUL.

Sounds of rhythm

25 Novembro 2015, 14:00 • Sónia Frota

The sounds of rhythm. Why languages have rhythm. Differences in rhythm across languages. Portuguese rhythm.

Readings:

Frota (2014); Frota et al. (2002)

Listening and analysing intonation

20 Novembro 2015, 14:00 • Sónia Frota

Exercises of production, listening, and analysis of intonation. Cross-language comparison as a tool to better understand intonation and its meanings.

Sound and meaning: phrasing and intonation

18 Novembro 2015, 14:00 • Sónia Frota

Melodies in language. Portuguese as an intonation language. Phrasing and intonation in Portuguese: Phonetics and phonology. Intonation of sentence types.

Readings:

Frota (2014) The intonational phonology of Portuguese