Intonation in European and Brazilian Portuguese

This chapter describes the intonation system of Portuguese, concentrating on the analysis of the three main functions of intonation: demarcation, highlighting, and distinction of utterance types. It is based on the description of a single variety: the Lisbon variety for European Portuguese (EP), and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frota, Sónia (author)
Other Authors: Moraes, João Antônio (author)
Format: bookPart
Language:eng
Published: 2016
Subjects:
Intonation
Prosody
Phrasing
Prominence
Focus
Sentence types
Prosodic variation
Brazilian Portuguese
European Portuguese
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10451/25546
Country:Portugal
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