Sound distribution

7 Outubro 2015, 14:00 • Sónia Frota

Going beyond the sound inventory: the distribution of consonants of vowels. Sound combinations, positional restrictions, contextual effects. Sound distribution in the syllable: consonants and glides before and after the vowel. The role of the (prosodic) word: consonants and vowels at word-beginnings and word-endings.

 

Readings: Gramática da Língua Portuguesa, pp. 1038-1047, 1061-1066

The Phonology of Portuguese, pp. 38-54

Vigário, M. (2003) The Prosodic Word in European Portuguese. Berlim/Nova Iorque: Mouton de Gruyter, chap. 3