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Zur semantischen Basis der Numerusdistinktion im gesprochenen Portugiesisch Brasiliens [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistik Online, 2005
This paper examines the semantics of the singular/plural distinction in spoken Brazilian Portuguese. Analysis of real data from this variety of Portuguese shows that: 1) both plural marked NPs and plural unmarked NPs may have a plural reference; 2) the ...
Enrique Huelva Unternbäumen
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On the system of mood in European and Brazilian Portuguese

open access: yesJournal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2004
This paper is concerned with mood distribution in European and Brazilian Portuguese. Although, in many cases, these two varieties do not differ as regards the selected mood, there are exceptions in some contexts.
Rui Marques
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The Uncertain Atlantic: African and European Transformations of São Tomé Island c. 1533

open access: yesCulture & History Digital Journal, 2023
As the first European colony to specialize in sugar cultivation using a labor force comprised exclusively of enslaved Africans, São Tomé island in the Gulf of Guinea is often considered the birthplace of the sugar plantation complex.
Gabriel de Avilez Rocha, David Wheat
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On Complex Predicates in Brazilian Portuguese [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
I analyze Romance syntactic complex predicates (faire-infinitive causatives, periphrastic tenses and restructuring), and propose the unification of these phenomena usually thought to stem from different structures by showing that one single analysis ...
Cyrino, Sonia
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Lateral vocalization in Brazilian Portuguese

open access: yesThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2022
Lateral vocalization is a cross-linguistically common phenomenon where a lateral is realized as a glide, such as [w, j], or a vowel [u, i]. In this paper, we focus on the articulatory triggers that could cause lateral vocalization. We examined Brazilian Portuguese, a language known for the process of lateral vocalization in coda position.
Howson, Phil J.   +2 more
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Brazilian Portuguese

open access: yesCadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos, 2021
The aim of this article is twofold. In the first place, we present evidence that the syntactic change towards overt pronominal subjects observed in Brazilian Portuguese is not a stable phenomenon; rather, our empirical results allow to follow the ...
Maria Eugenia Lamoglia Duarte   +1 more
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Translation, cultural adaptation and validation for Brazilian Portuguese of the Cardiff Acne Disability Index instrument [PDF]

open access: yesAnais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2016
BACKGROUND: The Cardiff Acne Disability Index was originally developed in English for measuring quality of life of acne patients. Considering the psychosocial impact of this disease, it is important to have instruments culturally and linguistically ...
Luciana Rosa Grando   +3 more
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Interrelationships among international stock market indices: Europe, Asia and the Americas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
In this paper, we investigate the price interdependence between seven international stock markets, namely Irish, UK, Portuguese, US, Brazilian, Japanese and Hong Kong, using a new testing method, based on the wavelet transform to reconstruct the data ...
Crane, Martin   +2 more
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Translation and validation of Hyperhidrosis Disease Severity Scale [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Introduction: The evaluation of patients with hyperhidrosis (HH) can be accomplished, among other ways, through questionnaires and scales. The Hyperhidrosis Disease Severity Scale (HDSS) has been used as a simple and quick tool to perform this evaluation.
Cucato, Gabriel   +7 more
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Molecular characterisation of congenital myasthenic syndromes in Southern Brazil [PDF]

open access: yes, 1989
Objective To perform genetic testing of patients with congenital myasthenic syndromes (CMS) from the Southern Brazilian state of Parana. Patients and methods Twenty-five CMS patients from 18 independent families were included in the study.
Abicht, A.   +12 more
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