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Pitch Accents in Brazilian Portuguese by Luís Felipe Nunes Borduam is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document analyzes the pitch accents of Brazilian Portuguese intonation patterns through acoustic analysis and resynthesis. It identifies 14 melodic contours and groups them into falling, rising, and lengthened patterns based on their nuclear contours. Through resynthesis and perceptual testing, the analysis aims to determine what prosodic characteristics are contrastive phonologically versus allophonic. The analysis proposes representations of the pitch accents within the Autosegmental-Metrical framewo
- Author
- Luís Felipe Nunes Borduam
- Language
- EN