scholarly journals A study on oral diphthongs in brazilian portuguese

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas Pereira Eberle ◽  
Maria Filomena Spatti Sandalo
Keyword(s):  
Optimality Theory ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese

This is a phonological study on the Brazilian Portuguese oral diphthong [uw], represented orthographically by "ul", which is in variation in the spoken language. We have investigated the phenomenon experimentally and acoustically. And we have modelled the results within Optimality Theory by means of the MaxEnt Grammar Tool program. It is, therefore, a study in language that uses experimental and computational methodologies in interaction.

scholarly journals HAPLOLOGIA SINTÁTICA E EFEITOS DE ECONOMIA

Organon ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (36) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa Battisti
Keyword(s):  
Optimality Theory ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Rule Analysis

Syntactic haplology (SH) is a sandhi rule which eliminates one of two contiguous identicalor partially identical syllables in a sentence (caldo de cana > cal de cana). Interpreting the results ofa variable rule analysis of SH on southern Brazilian Portuguese data according to Optimality Theory(PRINCE and SMOLENSKY, 1993; MCCARTHY and PRINCE, 1993,1995) implied discussing thenature of SH, if coalescence or deletion, and the markedness restriction involved. SH can be interpretedas a deletion process motivated by the requirement of avoiding sequences of identical or partiallyidentical syllabes, which is expressed by OCP.

scholarly journals Designing and building SCoPE²: A spoken corpus of Brazilian Portuguese and L2-English

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 49-64
Author(s):  
Giovani Santos
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Corpus Pragmatics ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
Gathering Data ◽  
Selection Of

This paper presents the process of designing and building a bilingual spoken corpus in order to pragmatically analyse oral L2-English discourse produced by a group of Brazilian university students living in Ireland. It discusses some of the decisions made, challenges faced, and considerations taken while designing a do-it-yourself corpus with a theoretical framework grounded in Corpus Pragmatics. The main objective is to share the lessons learned by examining the steps of designing and building SCoPE², a bilingual spoken corpus, including the selection of participants, gathering data, and challenges in transcribing and coding spoken language with pragmatics in mind.

scholarly journals A AQUISIÇÃO FONOLÓGICA DO INGLÊS COMO L2 À LUZ DA OT: OS VERBOS CONTENDO A MARCA «-ED»

Organon ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (36) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ubiratã Alves
Keyword(s):  
Optimality Theory ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
L2 Acquisition ◽  
Initial State ◽  
Written Form ◽  
Constraint Ranking

This paper focuses on the acquisition, by Brazilian Portuguese speakers, of both the syllabicstructure and the sonority of the coda segments of the English verbs containing the morpheme “-ed”.The analysis which was developed under the framework of Optimality Theory was able to show theevolution of the learners’ constraint ranking from the initial state H0 to the hierarchy which led tonative-like production. The analysis has also shown that, regarding the acquisition of the syllabicstructure, the production of native-like forms implied not only the demotion of constraints, but also theabandonment of an input originated from the written form, and the subsequent acquisition of a newunderlying representation which was able to lead to the production of the target structures. In thisregard, the analysis has revealed that, as for L2 acquisition, variable output forms do not need to besolely originated from the constraint ranking, given the fact that such outputs may also come from theexistence of more than one input representation maintained by the same learner

scholarly journals Two important karst books written in less spoken languages

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrej Kranjc
Keyword(s):  
Spoken Language ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The University

Nowadays we are commonly used that important books, containing new data, new theories, new karst and cave descriptions, etc are published in English. This is why a publication in a less familiar language may be less important from the global point of view but may be much more important; of a key importance even, in the community of its language. Hence we are very glad to highlight the importance of two books, one in the (Brazilian) Portuguese which in fact is not at all less spoken language, and another one in the Croatian language; both authors are former students of the Karstology doctoral programme at the University of Nova Gorica (Slovenia).

scholarly journals A relevância do contexto lingüístico na aquisição da fonologia e nos desvios fonológicos do desenvolvimento: o exemplo da palatalização

2011 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 39-52
Author(s):  
Carmen Lúcia Matzenauer-Hernandorena
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Optimality Theory ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Mixed Solution ◽  
Linguistic Context ◽  
Articulatory Phonology ◽  
Output Constraints ◽  
Context Dependent

Focusing the palatalization of coronal stops, a study with children acquiring Brazilian Portuguese, in normal and deviant process, makes clear a significant influence of the linguistic context in the behavior of consonantal segments, causing phonetic effects of co-articulation. In the analysis of the data, theoretical model based in constraints, as Optimality Theory, and dynamic model, as Articulatory Phonology, show more consistency in the explanation of context dependent phenomenon, like palatalization, than Autosegmental Theory, that demands a mixed solution, with the use of rules and also the use of output constraints.

Complex illocutive units in language into act theory

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-64
Author(s):  
Valentina Saccone ◽  
Marcelo Vieira ◽  
Alessandro Panunzi
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Pause Duration ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
List Type ◽  
High Similarity ◽  
Stressed Syllable ◽  
Variation Rate ◽  
Compositional Information

This work presents a preliminary analysis for a prosodic description of two different spoken structures in spoken language within the theoretical framework of the Language into Act Theory (L-AcT): (i) chains of two or more Bound Comments (COB) that do not form a compositional informative and prosodic unit; (ii) compositional Information Units formed by two or more Multiple Comments (CMM) of the List type, linked together by a conventional prosodic model that implements a specific meta-illocutive structure . The goal of this study is to underline specific features of the COB units and the List-type CMM units, detecting prosodic properties of Italian and Brazilian Portuguese spoken language. Through a specific script for Praat software, different parameters are automatically calculated: f0 reset, slope and variation rate, pause duration, spectral emphasis. Our results highlighted a common prosodic behavior in COB-units in terms of f0 movement (rising in the stressed syllable before the break and falling in the unstressed one just before the break), and high similarity between the two COBs and Lists, but also the need to distinguish the effects connected to the position of the stress from the specific features of the unit as detectable Textual Unit.

Analyticization and the syntax of the synthetic residue

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris H. Reintges ◽  
Sonia Cyrino
Keyword(s):  
Word Order ◽  
Morphological Structure ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Parameter Change ◽  
Verb Movement ◽  
Syntactic Variation ◽  
Verb Constructions ◽  
Auxiliary Verb ◽  
High Degree

Current understanding of syntactic variation and change relies on the notion of parameters of varying magnitude (micro- and macroparameters). This chapter focuses on the flipside of parameter change, namely the retention and survival of synthetic morphological structure in a context of widespread analyticization. The global effects of synthetic-to-analytic drift are examined in two diachronic scenarios: one in which the process has almost, though not entirely been completed (Coptic Egyptian), and another one in which the process is still under way (Brazilian Portuguese). Coptic has gone very far in abandoning its former synthetic features and thus exhibits a high degree of analyticity. In Brazilian Portuguese, the analyticization process is an advanced state, with synthetically inflected tenses exhibiting a decreasing productivity and gradually being replaced by the corresponding auxiliary verb constructions in the spoken language. The restriction on verb movement is a side effect of ongoing analyticization that affects language’s word order.

scholarly journals C-oral-Brasil project

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-77
Author(s):  
Giulia Bossaglia ◽  
Lúcia de Almeida Ferrari
Keyword(s):  
Information Structure ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Text To Speech ◽  
Natural Context ◽  
European Portuguese ◽  
Speech Alignment ◽  
Audio Files ◽  
Representative Samples

In this paper we present different resources for the study of spoken Brazilian Portuguese, developed within the C-ORAL-BRASIL project. The C-ORAL-BRASIL stemmed from the European C-ORAL-ROM project (Cresti & Moneglia, 2005), which has compiled spoken corpora of Italian, French, Spanish, and European Portuguese. The corpora of the C-ORAL family represent adequate tools for the analysis of spoken language, for they are provided not only with the transcripts of the recorded sessions (with prosodic breaks’ annotation), but also with their audio files and the text-to-speech alignment. So far, the C-ORAL-BRASIL project has published the C-ORAL-BRASIL I (Informal corpus: Raso & Mello, 2012), while the C-ORAL-BRASIL II (to be published by 2019) comprises a Formal corpus (Natural context), a Media corpus, and a Telephonic corpus. Besides these resources, a set of informationally tagged comparable minicorpora (representative samples of the aforementioned corpora) are already available or in preparation, enabling (cross-linguistic) studies focussed on information structure.

scholarly journals Corpus ABG / ABG Corpus

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-163
Author(s):  
Aline de Lima Benevides ◽  
Bruno Ferrari Guide
Keyword(s):  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Phonological Information ◽  
Computational Tools ◽  
Stress Marker ◽  
Phonological Structure

RESUMO:Este artigo apresenta a metodologia empregada na compilação de um corpus linguístico do Português Brasileiro, o qual foi denominado de Corpus ABG, e no desenvolvimento de algumas ferramentas computacionais. O objetivo deste trabalho é reunir uma grande quantidade de textos, escritos e orais, que possa representar o falar brasileiro a fim de ser fonte de extração de dados fonológicos quantificados para duas pesquisas, a saber, Guide (2016) e Benevides (2017). O corpus contabiliza 3.616.625 ocorrências de palavras e 92.602 tipos de palavras, sendo que 1.938.805 ocorrências são provenientes dos corpora de fala e 1.676.820 ocorrências dos corpora escritos. Ancorado na metodologia da Linguística de Corpus e por meio de ferramentas computacionais desenvolvidas em Linguagem Python, o presente artigo divulga e disponibiliza à comunidade científica o Corpus ABG, as ferramentas computacionais (acentuador, categorizador de estruturas fonológicas, silabificador) e algumas informações fonológicas (acentuais e silábicas) já extraídas do corpus. Além disso, faz um convite a novas explorações dos dados a todos os pesquisadores que tiverem interesse.  ABSTRACT:The present paper presents the task of compiling a linguistic corpus of Brazilian Portuguese, which was undertaken by the authors. It is called ABG Corpus, and this article is also about the computational tools developed for the task. Our main goal is to reunite a large amount of texts, both from spoken and written language to, in the best way possible, represent the Brazilian language in a way that we could use it as a database for our researches, Guide (2016) and Benevides (2017). The ABG corpus has 3.616.625 word tokens and 92.602 types of words, being that 1.938.805 of those tokens are from spoken language corpora and 1.676.820 tokens come from written corpora. Based on the corpus linguistics framework and through the use of computational tools developed using Python, this article shows and provides access to the ABG Corpus, the computational tools (stress marker, phonological structure identifier, syllabifier), as well as some phonological information (stress and syllable related), already present on the corpus. We end by inviting the community to further expand our findings and explore this new tool.

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