Chapter 3
Article assimilation and bare nominals
Article outline
- 3.1External vocalic sandhis in Brazilian Portuguese
- 3.1.1Leda Bisol’s account of external sandhis in Brazilian Portuguese and reactions
- 3.1.2Prosody
- 3.1.3Restriction of EL to word-final /a/
- 3.1.4The so-called “monomorphemes”
- 3.1.5Fusion vs. deletion and the number of processes
- 3.1.6A first balance
- 3.2External sandhis and the (definite) articles
- 3.2.1EL and DE with articles in unstressed contexts
- 3.2.2DE with articles under word stress
- 3.2.3Non-vocalic contexts
- 3.3Evidence from perception: A forced choice experiment
- 3.3.1Materials and experiment design
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3.3.2Results
- 3.3.3Discussion
- 3.4Contrasting European and Brazilian Portuguese
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3.4.1The corpus study
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3.4.2Feature coding
- 3.4.3Results: The distribution of possible assimilation contexts
- 3.4.4Discussion and conclusion
- 3.5Vocalic articles in Romance languages
- 3.6OCP-effects on Romance articles as evidence for syntactic status
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3.6.1A typology of OCP-effects in Romance
- 3.6.2The phonological-perceptual hypothesis and encapsulated syntax
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Notes