Understanding Phonology, Fourth Edition provides a clear, accessible and broad
introduction to Phonology. Introducing basic concepts, it provides a comprehensive account …

In an experimental task with novel words, we find that some lexical statistical regularities of
Turkish phonotactics are productively extended in nonce words, while others are not. In …

Abstract Although European and Brazilian Portuguese have long been considered to belong
to different rhythmic types, no clear support for this distinction has been given. In agreement …

We attempt to demonstrate that the substitution of a foreign segment in the borrowings of our
database, which includes 14,350 segmental malformations from French and English …

In this paper, we develop an analysis of primary word stress in Brazilian Portuguese (BP).
We evaluate the typological and language-specific arguments that are presented in the …

Neste artigo, cujo foco incide sobre aspectos referentes ao processo de aquisição da escrita
alfabética e sua relação com a aquisição fonológica, considera-se que fonemas e sílabas …

This study examines the nasal airflow and duration patterns of vowels and nasal appendices
in Québécois French (QF) and Brazilian Portuguese (BP) in order to determine if phonotactic …

This paper examines the role of weight in stress assignment in the Portuguese lexicon, and
proposes a probabilistic approach to stress. I show that weight effects are gradient, and …

Many commonly attested phonological processes occur in contexts that involve nasals,
including nasal assimilation, post nasal voicing and/or devoicing, and vowel nasalization …

In this dissertation, we aim at describing the acquisition path of five Portuguese children, in
respect to primary word stress (henceforth word stress). Portuguese word stress has been …