| ROA: | 463 |
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| Title: | The Sotaq optimality based computer program and secondary stress in two varieties of Portuguese |
| Authors: | Maria Bernadete Abaurre, Charlotte Galves, Arnaldo Mandel, Filomena Sandalo |
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| Length: | 58 |
| Abstract: | Typical postlexical interface phenomena, like secondary (rhythmic) stress, can be succesfully modeled by OT analyses, which predict optimally stressed outputs from a set of possible inputs and a hierarchically ranked set of constraints. This paper presents an OT analysis for European and Brazilian Portuguese secondary stressing. Based on this analysis, a computer program, sotaq, has been developed, allowing for automatic testing, against large corpora, of proposed constraint hierarchies for both varieties of Portuguese. Test results are presented, showing suitable hierarchies generating secondary stresses for both varieties of Portuguese. |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
| Area/Keywords: | Phonology |
| Article: | Version 1 |