Secondary stress in two varieties of Portuguese and the Sotaq optimality based computer program.

This paper presents an analysis of secondary stress in Brazilian and European Portuguese (BP and EP) based on Optimality Theory (OT). We argue that a representational analysis has the following advantages: (i) generating all the facts of Brazilian and European Portuguese without postulating any case...

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Published in:	Probus: International Journal of Latin & Romance Linguistics Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 97 - 126
Main Authors:	Sandalo, Filomena, Abaurre, Maria Bernadete, Mandel, Arnaldo, Galves, Charlotte
Format:	Article
Published:	De Gruyter 2006
Subjects:	Optimality theory (Linguistics) Neutralization (Linguistics) Phonology Computer software Generative grammar
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