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Author Symposium on Variation in Portuguese (1st : 2014 : University of Minho)

Title Studies on variation in Portuguese / edited by Pilar Barbosa, Maria da Conceição de Paiva and Celeste Rodrigues
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]

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Series Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2213-3887 ; Volume 14
Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics ; Volume 14.
Contents Studies on Variation in Portuguese -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- The study of variation in Portuguese: Overview and outlook -- 1. Current issues in the study of language variation (an overview) -- 2. The volume -- 3. Concluding remarks -- References -- Author queries -- Part I. Variation within national varieties of Portuguese -- Chapter 1. Stressed vowels of European Portuguese in spontaneous speech -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The European Portuguese vowel system
3. Previous acoustic studies of the vowel system of European Portuguese4. Method -- 5. Results -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Final remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 3. Building a prosodic profile of European Portuguese varieties: The challenge of mapping intonation and rhythm -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The challenge of mapping -- 2.1 Mapping linguistic variation -- 2.2 Models of spatial interaction and interpolation: An innovative proposal to map variation -- 3. Mapping linguistic variation in European Portuguese -- 4. Materials -- 5. Results
5.1 Intonation5.2 Rhythm -- 6. Building a prosodic profile of European Portuguese varieties -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 4. The yes-no question contour in Brazilian Portuguese: A geographical continuum -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous studies on intonational variation in Portuguese -- 3. The phonological analysis of nuclear contours across languages: The rising-falling contour -- 4. Methodology -- 5. Results -- 5.1 The phonological analysis -- 5.2 The geographical distribution -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References
Author queriesChapter 5. â#x80;#x9C;Vocîs tenham cuidado, sois educadas para issoâ#x80;#x9D;: Second person pronouns in Braga speech -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some theoretical and methodological issues -- 3. Variation between vós and vocîs in BragaÂś speech -- 4. Variation between Ãı2pl and Ãı3pl in subject function -- 5. Variation in complement function -- 6. Final remarks -- References -- Author queries -- Chapter 6. Variable use of strong preterites: A sociolinguistic and theoretical approach -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Corpus and coding -- 3. Results
4. Discussion and theoretical consequences4.1 Background assumptions -- 4.2 Strong preterites in standard EP -- 4.3 Variable syncretism -- 5. Final remarks -- References -- Author queries -- Chapter 7. Conditions on variation in pre-nominal possessives in European Portuguese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pre-nominal possessives: Determiners or adjectives? -- 3. Strong, weak and clitic possessives? -- 4. Pre-nominal possessives and the definite/indefinite article -- 5. The structure -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Author queries
Notes Based on the 1st Symposium on Variation in Portuguese, held at the University of Minho, Portugal, in April 2014
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Portuguese language -- Variation -- Congresses
Portuguese language -- Usage -- Congresses
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Portuguese.
Portuguese language -- Usage
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Barbosa, Pilar, editor
Paiva, Maria da Conceição de, editor
Rodrigues, Celeste, 1966- editor.
LC no. 2017042585
ISBN 9789027265142
9027265143