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Title:
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Prosody and Focus in European Portuguese
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Author:
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Sónia Frota
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Email:
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Homepage:
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http://www.soniafrota.me.uk
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Degree Awarded:
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Universidade de Lisboa
, Department of Linguistics
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Degree Date:
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1998
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Linguistic Subfield(s):
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Phonology
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Subject Language(s):
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Portuguese
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Director(s):
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Raquel Delgado Martins
Marina Nespor
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Abstract:
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The subject matter of this dissertation is the relation between prosodic constituent structure, intonational structure, and (some instances of) focus in European Portuguese. Its aim was thus twofold: (i) to examine the phrasal domains of EP sentence phonology, and (ii) to describe how focus is expressed by phonological means. A prosodic account has been developed within the relation-based framework of prosodic hierarchy theory and the autosegmental-metrical theory of intonational phonology. The chosen approach was both theoretical and laboratory based, along the lines of recent laboratory phonology research.
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