Nativization and final stres maintenance in Portuguese

Authors

  • Gabriel Antunes de Araujo
  • Ana Lívia dos Santos Agostinho

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/sig.v21i2.9159

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to investigate stress maintenance in a corpus of final
stress words (also known as oxytone) in Portuguese. The corpus contains 10.494
noun words with final stress and their respective phonetic transcriptions from
the Houaiss Dictionary. We argue that there is a tendency to keep the final
stress as in their source language, especially Latin, ‘Tupi’, French, Arabic,
Ioruba, English, Spanish, Greek and Concani. We also discuss the quality of
the final element (if vowel, glide or consonant) and the connexion with the
documented century of the lexical borrowing.

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Published

2010-03-23

How to Cite

ARAUJO, G. A. de; AGOSTINHO, A. L. dos S. Nativization and final stres maintenance in Portuguese. Signótica, Goiânia, v. 21, n. 2, p. 305–340, 2010. DOI: 10.5216/sig.v21i2.9159. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/sig/article/view/9159. Acesso em: 4 dec. 2024.

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 2 (2009)

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