A statistical account of final stress in portuguese

Authors

  • Ana Lívia dos Santos Agostinho
  • Gabriel Antunes de Araújo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/sig.v19i2.7466

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyse a corpus of final stress words (also known
as oxytone) in Portuguese. Based on a corpus of 10.494 noun words with final
stress and their respective phonetic transcriptions from the Houaiss Dictionary,
we argue that the majority of the final stress words in Portuguese are lexical
borrowings. Latin, “Tupi”, French, Arabic, Ioruba are the majors sources,
however, Portuguese borrowed from more than one hundred languages. We
also discuss the quality of the final element (if vowel, glide or consonant) and
the overall frequency of these final stress words.

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Published

2009-09-17

How to Cite

AGOSTINHO, A. L. dos S.; ARAÚJO, G. A. de. A statistical account of final stress in portuguese. Signótica, Goiânia, v. 19, n. 2, p. 177–208, 2009. DOI: 10.5216/sig.v19i2.7466. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/sig/article/view/7466. Acesso em: 22 dec. 2024.

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 2 (2007)

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