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Resyllabification of laterals in Brazilian Portuguese
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2003 Lateral sounds in Brazilian Portuguese have received some amount of attention, both from quantitative studies and from dialectology. In this paper we will study the variable pronunciation of /l/ as either consonantal or vocalic, relating it to the possibility of resyllabification across different types of prosodic boundaries. We examine the patterns of
Cristine Ferreira Costa +1 more
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Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2016 The main objective of this paper is to revisit the category known as “brazilianism”. This category is analyzed from a traditional and historical perspective, which regards “brazilianisms” as particular expressions or words, coined in Brazil, that diverge
Bruna Elisa da Costa Moreira
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A Normalizer for UGC in Brazilian Portuguese [PDF]
Proceedings of the Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text, 2015 User-generated contents (UGC) represent an important source of information for governments, companies, political candidates and consumers. However, most of the Natural Language Processing tools and techniques are developed from and for texts of standard language, and UGC is a type of text especially full of creativity and idiosyncrasies, which ...
Lucas Avanço +2 more
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Brazil: Modernity and Mobility [PDF]
, 2015 This essay examines the field of Brazilian mobility studies, concentrating mainly on recent (2010-2013) scholarship by Portuguese-speaking Brazilian academics published in English-language journals. The mass demonstrations and violent protests that have
Cooper, Martin
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Brazilian Portuguese Words for Design [PDF]
, 2009 Brazilian Portuguese is the Portuguese spoken in Brazil, which has slight differences from the Portuguese spoken in Portugal. One may try to understand such differences by comparing them with the dissimilarities between the American English and the ...
Cassidy, Tracy Diane, Gies, Sheila
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The written production of argumentative and dissertation text: a didactic project based on Bakhtin's philosophy [PDF]
, 2018 This article is characterized as a theoretical and practical research related to a project developed during the year 2015 in two schools - one public, the other private- , in the city of Birigui, State of São Paulo, Brazil. The main goal of the study was
Farias Coelho, Patricia Margarida +2 more
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3rd person possessives: Old Portuguese and Modern Brazilian Portuguese
Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2014 This paper addresses some comparative aspects of the 3rd person possessive pronouns seu and dele in Modern Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and Old Portuguese (OP).
Maria Aparecida Torres Morais +1 more
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Cross-cultural comparisons of motor competence in southern Brazilian and Portuguese schoolchildren
Motriz: Revista de Educacao Fisica, 2021 Aim: This study aimed to compare the MC levels of Brazilian and Portuguese schoolchildren from 4 to 11 years. Methods: One hundred and forty-eight Brazilian children were evaluated using the Motor Competence Assessment (MCA) instrument and were later ...
Fábio Saraiva Flôres +3 more
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Elicited Imitation for Brazilian Portuguese
BELT – Brazilian English Language Teaching Journal, 2016 Elicited imitation (EI) is an approach to measuring oral proficiency that consists of having test takers hear a sentence and repeat the sentence exactly as they heard it. Though indirect in nature, EI has successfully shown to correlate with previously established oral proficiency examinations, such as the Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) (Lonsdale and
Jarrett Finlinson Lever, Deryle Lonsdale
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