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Confronting the European Portuguese central vowel distinction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2016

Christopher Spahr
Christopher Spahr*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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christopher.spahr@mail.utoronto.ca
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Stressed syllables in European Portuguese contrast seven oral vowels, /i, u, e, o, ε, ɔ, a/, which are reduced to a simpler four-vowel set in unstressed syllables. Although /a/ never undergoes any phonological neutralization through vowel reduction, it has a raised allophone [ɐ] which occurs in several environments

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Squib/Notule
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 61 , Issue 2 , July 2016 , pp. 211 - 217
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© Canadian Linguistic Association/Association canadienne de linguistique 2016 

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Footnotes

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I would like to thank Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho, Elan Dresher, Ross Godfrey, Daniel Currie Hall, Keren Rice, and an anonymous CJL/RCL reviewer for comments on earlier versions of this squib. Work on this topic has also benefited from presentation to audiences at the 44th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages and at the University of Toronto. Responsibility for any remaining errors or shortcomings is entirely my own.

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