This is a 3 volume comprehensive morphophonological grammar of Portuguese. It rests on coherent theories of morphology and markedness and evaluates Portuguese segments and morphemes according to their markedness, which entails their frequency, productivity, complexity, and uniqueness.

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1. Verfasser:	Brakel, Arthur (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Bern Peter Lang 2022
Ausgabe:	1st ed.
Schlagworte:	Morphophonemics Children-Language Electronic books
Zusammenfassung:	This is a 3 volume comprehensive morphophonological grammar of Portuguese. It rests on coherent theories of morphology and markedness and evaluates Portuguese segments and morphemes according to their markedness, which entails their frequency, productivity, complexity, and uniqueness. Cover -- Copyright Information -- Dedication -- Preface -- On Reading This Book -- Pertinent Phonetic Symbols -- Phonological and Morphophonological Formalism -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Segmental Markedness-Theory, Data, Applications -- Introduction -- Opposition -- Extraordinariness -- Phonological Complexity -- Complexity and Frequency (Portuguese Texts) -- Markedness and Restricted Distribution -- [+contoid] Revisited -- Conclusions -- Appendix A: Mexican Spanish: High Frequency Phonemes in Action -- Appendix B: Marks and Preponderance -- Appendix C: Complexity and Frequency (The Mielke Database) -- Inventory and Incidence: 90% of Mielke's Database -- Appendix D: Markedness Matrices for Mielke's 151 Most Frequent Phonemes -- 2 The Contrastive Segments of Portuguese: Controversy, Anomaly, and Inventory -- Introduction -- The Rhotic Issue -- Nasal(ized) Vowels -- Eight Vowel Phonemes? -- Pretonic Vowels -- Conclusions -- Appendix A -- Uncontroversial Portuguese Phonemes -- Vowel Phonemes -- Appendix B -- Rules as They Appear in Chapter 2 -- Appendix C -- The Grammar of Allophony -- Rules in Their Order of Application -- 3 Portuguese Stress -- Introduction -- The Standard Generative Analysis -- Levels of Stress? -- Portuguese Stress: Acoustic Measurements -- Major -- Delgado Martins -- Conclusions -- Appendix A -- Rules in Their Order of Appearance -- Appendix B -- Rules in Their Order of Appearance and Sample Derivations -- Appendix C -- The Rhythmic Wave Approach to Portuguese Stress -- Appendix D -- Stress Determination by Syllable-Weight or Morphology? -- Appendix E -- Delgado Martins's Data -- Delgado Martins's Sentences in A-Dialectal European Portuguese Transcription -- Appendix F -- Durational Relationships among Manifest Vowel Durations in Delgado Martins's Data -- 4 The Portuguese Syllable -- Introduction.
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Beschreibung:	1 online resource (480 pages)
ISBN:	9783034338424