scholarly journals Raising of argumental noun phrase in Brazilian Portuguese under the functional perspective: preliminary results

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 3729-3741
Author(s):  
Gustavo Silva Andrade
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Functional Perspective

Alçamento é definido na literatura como a codificação de sintagma nominal (SN) argumento do predicado encaixado aos limites do predicado da oração matriz, com o qual contrai relações morfossintáticas; são preservadas, assim, as relações semânticas do SN alçado com o predicado encaixado, mas há uma quebra na sua relação morfossintática (NOONAN, 2007). A partir de diferentes tipos de alçamento expressos em diferentes línguas (NOONAN, 2007; GÁRCIA VELASCO, 2013), este trabalho tem como objetivo extrair propriedades relevantes para a descrição de um tipo específico de Alçamento no Português Brasileiro (PB): Alçamento de Sujeito a Sujeito (ASS).

Gender Agreement as a "Decreolizing" Feature of an Afro-Brazilian Dialect

1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan N. Baxter ◽  
Dante Lucchesi ◽  
Maximiliano Guimaraes
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Gender Agreement ◽  
Structural Variables ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
L1 Acquisition ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Afro Brazilian

This paper examines variation in the noun phrase gender agreement rule in the Afro-Brazilian Portuguese dialect of Helvétia. The analysis of the variation proceeds within a quantitative framework; it considers structural implications, in generative terms, and sociolinguistic aspects, yielding evidence relevant to the definition of the postcreole nature of the dialect. Structural parallels are found with Portuguese L1 acquisition and with varieties of creole Portuguese, and the relationship of the Helvétia dialect to more standard varieties of Brazilian Portuguese is clarified. An evaluation of structural variables reveals how the gender agreement rule is being incorporated into the grammar of the dialect at different rates along different structural paths and in different pragmatic functions, reflecting intricacies of the grammar associated with the noun. Finally, a scrutiny of the effect of extralinguistic variables on gender agreement clearly reveals the acquisitional nature of the variation.

Change without change

1999 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony J. Naro ◽  
Edair Görski ◽  
Eulália Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Past Tense ◽  
Historical Evolution ◽  
Surface Distribution ◽  
Person Plural ◽  
The People ◽  
Popular Speech ◽  
Determining Factor

Brazilian Portuguese possesses two forms used as 1st person plural pronouns: nós and a gente, both meaning ‘we’. The form nós has always been pronominal, whereas a gente is derived diachronically from the noun phrase a gente ‘the people’. In accord with this historical evolution, the standard language prefers the use of the 1st plural verb desinence -mos with nós, as in nós falamos ‘we speak’ or ‘we spoke’. The 3rd person desinence 0 is reserved for a gente, giving a gente fala ‘we speak’ as the preferred form. In popular speech both nós fala and a gente falamos are used frequently. We examine the use of these variable forms across four generations in Rio de Janeiro. In the older generations, phonic salience is the principal controlling factor for both nós and a gente. Since preterit desinences are stressed more frequently than present desinences, this induces a biased surface distribution, with -mos occurring more frequently with past tense reference. Nonetheless, for older speakers tense does not play a statistically significant role. In younger speakers, tense becomes statistically significant as a determining factor in the use of the desinences, with preterit favoring -mos for both subject forms. So far, there has been no change in the grammar itself, but the locus of determination of the use of -mos seems to have shifted from saliency to tense across the generations. One can speculate that some time in the future -mos may become a preterit marker.

scholarly journals HARMONIA VOCÁLICA NA FALA DE BELÉM-PA: UMA ANÁLISE ACÚSTICA | VOWEL HARMONY IN THE SPEECH OF BELÉM-PA: AN ACOUSTICAL ANALYSIS

2019 ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Gisele Braga Souza ◽  
Plínio Almeida Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Acoustic Analysis ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Title Page ◽  
Vowel Harmony ◽  
Acoustic Parameters ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Acoustical Analysis ◽  
The City ◽  
Target Words

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="section"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>Resumo: </span><span>O presente trabalho faz parte de um estudo que tem por intuito analisar acusticamente o fenômeno da harmonia vocálica na fala de Belém-PA. Para tal, investiga-se o grau de coarticulação vogal a vogal por meio da análise dos parâmetros acústicos F1, F2 e duração. O </span><span>corpus </span><span>analisado é constituído por amostras de fala de 6 falantes nativos da cidade de Belém, os quais foram submetidos a um protocolo de coleta de dados composto por palavras-alvo inseridas em frase veículo. De posse das gravações, os dados foram tratados e analisados estatisticamente. Os resultados preliminares mostram que, de modo geral, as vogais médias pretônicas tendem a abaixar diante de vogais baixas na tônica, o que pode caracterizar a ocorrência de harmonia vocálica. </span></p><div class="page" title="Page 2"><div class="section"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>Abstract: </span><span>The present work is part of a study that aims to acoustically analyze the phenomenon of vowel harmony in the speech of Belém-PA. To do this, we investigate the degree of vowel-to-vowel coarticulation through the analysis of the acoustic parameters F1, F2 and duration. The analyzed corpus consists of speech samples of six speakers from the city of Belém, who were submitted to a data collection protocol composed of target words inserted in a carrier phrase. With the recordings in hand, the data were treated and analyzed statistically. Preliminary results show that, in general, the median pre-tonic vowels tend to lower with low vowels in the tonic, which may characterize the occurrence of vowel harmony. </span></p><p><span>Keywords: </span><span>Acoustic analysis; Phonetics; Vowel harmony; Brazilian Portuguese. </span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>

scholarly journals Tipo: Innovation and change in Brazilian Portuguese

Diacrítica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-215
Author(s):  
Christiani P. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Nominal Form ◽  
Linguistic Innovation ◽  
Innovation And Change

This paper provides an empirical account of the synchronic variation in the use of the noun TIPO (‘type’, ‘kind’)in the Brazilian Portuguese vernacular. Innovation in its use, first documented by Bittencourt (1999), suggests TIPO may be performing functions beyond those of a noun. To investigate innovation in its use, this study focuses on the speech of teenagers born and raised in Rio de Janeiro. Although this group has been shown to be in the forefront of linguistic innovation (D’Arcy, 2005; Tagliamonte, 2016), research on the speech of adolescents remains scant in Brazilian Portuguese. This paper[1]aims to fill this gap by presenting the results of two analyses of empirical data collected between 2015 and 2018 (the author and collaborator).[2]Results indicate that TIPO is not only salient in participants’ speech but also that non-nominal forms of TIPO are more frequently used by speakers (97.98%) when compared to its nominal form (2.02%). Findings suggest that uses of non-nominal TIPO are systematic and linguistically defined: TIPO is most often found in pre-clausal position or preceding a noun phrase. Findings also show that TIPO is performing functions beyond those of a noun, such as a preposition and an adverb.      

scholarly journals O mecanismo da variação da concordância no Português: observações quanto a marcas nos verbos e nos nomes (The mechanism of variation in agreement in Portuguese: observations concerning agreement marking on verbs and nouns)

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Norma Da Silva Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Number Agreement ◽  
Verb Agreement ◽  
Verbal Agreement

Este artigo discute a respeito de fenômenos distintos: a variação da concordância verbal e a de gênero e a de número no sintagma nominal do Português Brasileiro. A apresentação objetiva mostrar que há uma restrição linguística comum aos diferentes fenômenos, que atua fortemente na escolha das variantes.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Concordância verbal. Concordância de gênero e de número. Português. Morfemas. ABSTRACTThis paper discusses three different phenomena: variation in verb agreement, and in gender and number agreement in the noun phrase, in Brazilian Portuguese. It aims to show that there is a common linguistic restriction on these different phenomena, which strongly conditions the choice of variants.KEYWORDS: Verbal Agreement. Gender and numbe agrément. Portuguese. Morphemes.

P4-062: Brazilian Portuguese version for the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and the preliminary results

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. T686-T686 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo Henrique Ferreira Bertolucci ◽  
Ana Luisa Rosas Sarmento ◽  
José Roberto Wajman
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Assessment ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Montreal Cognitive Assessment ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Portuguese Version

Phrase-level parallelism effect on noun phrase number agreement

2001 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Marta Pereira Scherre
Keyword(s):  
Parallel Processing ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Universal Principle ◽  
Vast Number ◽  
Number Agreement ◽  
Puerto Rican Spanish ◽  
Level Parallelism

Linguistic parallelism (i.e., the tendency of similar forms to occur together within a stretch of discourse) has been shown to be very strong in many linguistic phenomena and in a vast number of languages. Examining the role of phrase-level parallelism on noun phrase number agreement, this article demonstrates that Puerto Rican Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese exhibit more similarities than differences with regard to this constraint. A detailed analysis of Brazilian Portuguese data is presented, and the results are compared with those found by Poplack (1980a) for Puerto Rican Spanish. Guy's (1981a) and Labov's (1994) hypothesis about missing zeroes in Brazilian Portuguese is also discussed. In conclusion, it is claimed that the phrase-level parallelism effect on noun phrase number agreement is embedded in a universal principle of linguistic use: parallel processing.

scholarly journals THE PROTOTYPIC NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT AND THE PARSING OF THE NUTRITIONAL CRITICAL CONTROL POINTS (NCCP) IN ORTHOPEDICS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matteo Briguglio ◽  
Giuseppe Banfi ◽  
Jacopo Vitale ◽  
Paolo Sirtori ◽  
Paolo Perazzo
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Nutritional Assessment ◽  
Hip Surgery ◽  
Control Points ◽  
Ongoing Trial ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Functional Perspective ◽  
Critical Control Points

We presented preliminary results of an ongoing trial comprehensively evaluating older adults undergoing prosthetic hip surgery from a biochemical, dietetic, nutritional, and functional perspective.

The O–C diagrams of minor planets − a new approach to modelling the rotation

1999 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 185-188
Author(s):  
Gy. Szabó ◽  
K. Sárneczky ◽  
L.L. Kiss
Keyword(s):  
Error Analysis ◽  
Time Dependence ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Minor Planet ◽  
Minor Planets ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Ccd Observations

AbstractA widely used tool in studying quasi-monoperiodic processes is the O–C diagram. This paper deals with the application of this diagram in minor planet studies. The main difference between our approach and the classical O–C diagram is that we transform the epoch (=time) dependence into the geocentric longitude domain. We outline a rotation modelling using this modified O–C and illustrate the abilities with detailed error analysis. The primary assumption, that the monotonity and the shape of this diagram is (almost) independent of the geometry of the asteroids is discussed and tested. The monotonity enables an unambiguous distinction between the prograde and retrograde rotation, thus the four-fold (or in some cases the two-fold) ambiguities can be avoided. This turned out to be the main advantage of the O–C examination. As an extension to the theoretical work, we present some preliminary results on 1727 Mette based on new CCD observations.

Cyclic Evolution of Sunspots: Gleaning New Results from Old Data

2000 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 163-165
Author(s):  
S. K. Solanki ◽  
M. Fligge ◽  
P. Pulkkinen ◽  
P. Hoyng
Keyword(s):  
Sunspot Number ◽  
Sunspot Cycle ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Butterfly Diagram

AbstractThe records of sunspot number, sunspot areas and sunspot locations gathered over the centuries by various observatories are reanalysed with the aim of finding as yet undiscovered connections between the different parameters of the sunspot cycle and the butterfly diagram. Preliminary results of such interrelationships are presented.

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