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      The Acquisition of Tonic and Pre-Tonic Vowels in Brazilian Portuguese

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      Journal: Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
      Publisher: Ubiquity Press
      Keywords: phonological acquisition, Brazilian Portuguese, Contrastive Hierarchy Theory, variability

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          This study presents the acquisition of the tonic and pre-tonic vowels in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) by three children aged from 1;0 to 3;5, assuming the Contrastive Hierarchy Theory (CHT) ( Dresher 2003, 2009). We address three issues regarding acquisition within the CHT: variability, phonological processes and restructuring. Results indicate that children may take different paths in acquiring segmental phonology and restructure their built structure if it does not account for the phonological processes found in the language they are exposed to.

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          The Contrastive Hierarchy in Phonology

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          'Contrast' - the opposition between distinctive sounds in a language - is one of the most central concepts in linguistics. This book presents a fascinating account of the logic and history of contrast in phonology. It provides empirical evidence from diverse phonological domains that only contrastive features are computed by the phonological component of grammar. It argues that the contrastive specifications of phonemes are governed by language-particular feature hierarchies. This approach assigns a key role to abstract cognitive structures, challenging contemporary approaches that favour phonetic explanations of phonological phenomena. Tracing the evolution of the hypothesis that contrastive features play a special role in phonology, it shows how this insight has been obscured by misunderstandings of the role of the contrastive feature hierarchy. Questioning the widely held notion that contrast should be based on minimal pairs, Elan Dresher argues that the contrastive hierarchy is indispensable to illuminating accounts of phonological patterning.
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            INSIGHTS SOBRE A REPRESENTAÇÃO DAS VOGAIS PRÊTONICAS NO PORTUGUÊS DO BRASIL: DADOS DE DESENVOLVIMENTO FONOLÓGICO E DE ESCRITA INICIAL

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                Graziela Pigatto Bohn:
                ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7431-1440
                Journal
                Journal ID (issn): 2397-5563
                Title: Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
                Publisher: Ubiquity Press
                ISSN (Electronic): 2397-5563
                Publication date Created: 22 November 2017
                Publication date Collection: 2017
                Volume: 16
                Electronic Location Identifier: 7
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                [1 ]University of São Paulo, 2015, BR
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                http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7431-1440
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                DOI: 10.5334/jpl.184
                SO-VID: 87ecec84-52a1-4d89-b301-6474406114a1
                Copyright © Copyright: © 2017 The Author(s)
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                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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                Date received : 06 June 2017
                Date accepted : 05 September 2017
                Categories
                Subject: Dissertation abstract

                ScienceOpen disciplines: Linguistics & Semiotics,Languages of Europe
                Keywords: variability,Contrastive Hierarchy Theory,Brazilian Portuguese,phonological acquisition
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                ScienceOpen disciplines: Linguistics & Semiotics, Languages of Europe
                Keywords: variability, Contrastive Hierarchy Theory, Brazilian Portuguese, phonological acquisition

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