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Indigenous Natures and the Anthropocene: Racial Capitalism, Violent Materialities, and the Colonial Politics of Representation

open access: yesAntipode, EarlyView.
Abstract Indigenous Peoples are gaining renewed attention within both policy and academia, as examples of “resilience” and of non‐humanist, non‐modern ways of relating to nature, which might, it is hoped, provide tools to withstand the socio‐ecological crises associated with “the Anthropocene”.
Penelope Anthias, Kiran Asher
wiley   +1 more source

Prosody and Emotion in Brazilian Portuguese

2016
This study addresses the production and perception of four emotions (anger, joy, sadness, and fear) performed in Brazilian Portuguese sentences of different modes: declarative (assertions), interrogative (yes/no questions), and imperative (orders). The results of an acoustic analysis and of perception tests are presented.
Moraes, João Antônio, Rilliard, Albert
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Portuguese and Brazilian Spelling [PDF]

open access: possibleHispania, 1942
W JHEN the history of Portuguese orthography is written, there will be no more interesting chapter than that dealing with the work of ...
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Sandhi in Brazilian Portuguese

Probus, 2003
This paper studies the role of main stress in Brazilian Portuguese sandhi rules. It is shown that, when the second vowel of a VV sequence carries the phrasal stress, Degemination and Elision cannot apply to resolve the hiatus, whereas under the same circumstances, Diphthongization may occur.
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Grammaticalization in Brazilian Portuguese

2012
AbstractThis article aims to present a broad view of grammaticalisation phenomena in Brazilian Portuguese language. It provides a concise analysis of a number of different clines of grammaticalization, focusing on the development of pronouns, auxiliaries, and connectives.
Maria Maura Cezario   +1 more
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Generic bare singulars in Brazilian Portuguese

2010
The analysis of the generic readings of Bare Singulars in Brazilian Portuguese is controversial: for Munn & Schmitt (1999, 2005) and Schmitt & Munn (2002) generic Bare Singulars are names of kinds, whereas for Müller (2002) they are indefinites bound by a generic operator.
Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen   +1 more
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A Portuguese/Brazilian study of Expressed Emotion

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 1992
Expressed Emotion is a measure of family interaction, widely used in studies around the world to predict relapse in severe psychiatric disorders. The instrument was originally developed in London. It depends on subtle vocal nuances emerging in the course of the Camberwell Family Interview (CFI).
A. I. de Lemos   +2 more
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Verb Clustering for Brazilian Portuguese [PDF]

open access: possible, 2014
Levin-style classes which capture the shared syntax and semantics of verbs have proven useful for many Natural Language Processing NLP tasks and applications. However, lexical resources which provide information about such classes are only available for a handful of worlds languages.
Martha Palmer   +5 more
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Stress and Rhythm in Brazilian Portuguese

Language, 1985
Brazilian Portuguese prosody is organized in a rhythmic hierarchy which governs the phonology of the language, and which is demonstrated by instrumental and phonological evidence to be present diachronically and synchronically in different speech styles. Principles of stress, which yield two degrees, assign secondary stress to pretonic syllables and no
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The Brazilian Portuguese Hearing in Noise Test

International Journal of Audiology, 2008
The hearing in noise test (HINT) is currently available in several languages (Nilsson et al., 1994).
Marcos Roberto Banhara   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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