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      Onsets and syllable prominence in Umutina Translated title: Onsets e proeminência silábica em Umutina

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          In Umutina the distribution of main word stress is sensitive to the sonority degree of vowels within a two-syllable window at the right side of the word, a property which it shares with a number of other languages. What makes Umutina particularly interesting is the fact that low sonorant onsets in the word final syllable impede the retraction of stress to the prefinal syllable, even when the prefinal nucleus is more sonorant than the final one. A constraint analysis is proposed based on the hypothesis that what makes syllables with low sonorant onsets prominent is the sharp sonority rise between a low sonorant onset and the following nucleus.

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          No Umutina, a distribuição do acento primário é sensível ao grau de sonoridade das vogais nucleares nas duas últimas sílabas da palavra, sendo essa uma propriedade compartilhada com algumas outras línguas. O que torna o Umutina particularmente interessante é o fato de que a baixa sonoridade dos onsets em sílaba final de palavra impede a retração do acento para a sílaba pré-final, mesmo quando o núcleo pré-final é mais sonorante do que o núcleo final. Uma análise baseada em restrições é proposta com base na hipótese de que o que torna sílabas com onsets de baixa sonoridade proeminentes é precisamente o forte aumento de sonoridade na transição entre o onset de baixa sonoridade e o núcleo seguinte.

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              Markedness : Reduction and Preservation in Phonology

              'Markedness' refers to the tendency of languages to show a preference for particular structures or sounds. This bias towards 'marked' elements is consistent within and across languages, and tells us a great deal about what languages can and cannot do. This pioneering study presents a groundbreaking theory of markedness in phonology. De Lacy argues that markedness is part of our linguistic competence, and is determined by three conflicting mechanisms in the brain: (a) pressure to preserve marked sounds ('preservation'), (b) pressure to turn marked sounds into unmarked sounds ('reduction'), and (c) a mechanism allowing the distinction between marked and unmarked sounds to be collapsed ('conflation'). He shows that due to these mechanisms, markedness occurs only when preservation is irrelevant. Drawing on examples of phenomena such as epenthesis, neutralisation, assimilation, vowel reduction and sonority-driven stress, Markedness offers an important insight into this essential concept in the understanding of human language.
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                Journal
                delta
                DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada
                DELTA
                Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo - PUC-SP (São Paulo )
                1678-460X
                2014
                : 30
                : spe
                : 703-720
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Netherlands
                [2 ] Universidade de São Paulo Brazil
                [3 ] Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Brazil
                [4 ] Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Netherlands
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                S0102-44502014000300703
                10.1590/0102-445001831904546456
                52552ebb-4682-4f04-adf0-7310fb104320

                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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                LINGUISTICS

                General linguistics
                stress,sonority,syllable prominence,acento,sonoridade,proeminência silábica
                General linguistics
                stress, sonority, syllable prominence, acento, sonoridade, proeminência silábica

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