Boundaries and asymmetries in phonology and morphology: acoustic and phonetic analysis of vowel harmony in Brazilian Portuguese | Zendy

Plínio Almeida Barbosa | Zendy; Paula Benassi Papa | Zendy

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Boundaries and asymmetries in phonology and morphology: acoustic and phonetic analysis of vowel harmony in Brazilian Portuguese

Author(s) -

Plínio Almeida Barbosa,

Paula Benassi Papa

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

anais do congresso de iniciação científica da unicamp

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

ISSN - 2447-5114

DOI - 10.19146/pibic-2015-37728

Subject(s) - vowel harmony , phonology , linguistics , brazilian portuguese , portuguese , vowel , computer science , harmony (color) , phonological rule , speech recognition , art , philosophy , visual arts

This study aims to analyze two processes related to two asymmetries in Brazilian Portuguese: vowel harmony and reduction in pre-stressed vowels. For so, acoustic analyses were carried out couched in coarticulation theories and a corpus, containing test and control words of high and low familiarity, recorded with 10 subjects from São Paulo and Pernambuco states. Here, we present the first results of a paulista female subject for F1, which is a correlate of vowel height. We show that familiar words are more in harmony with the stressed vowels considering pre-stressed vowels / e a o/ indistinctly.

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