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Conference 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.

Publication Info. 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.
Note 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.
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 Portuguese""""4. 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 Intonation""""5.2 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 queries""""Chapter 5. â#x80;#x9C;Vocês 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 vocês in BragaÂś speech""; ""4. Variation between ø2pl and ø3pl 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 consequences""""4.1 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""
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Subject Portuguese language -- Variation -- Congresses.
Portuguese language.
Portuguese language -- Usage -- Congresses.
Portuguese language -- Usage.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Barbosa, Pilar, editor.
Paiva, Maria da Conceição de, editor.
Rodrigues, Celeste, 1966- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Symposium on Variation in Portuguese (1st : 2014 : University of Minho). Studies on variation in Portuguese. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017] 9789027258137 (DLC) 2017022879
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