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Differences between European and Brazilian Portuguese in the use of temporal adverbials

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2004
This paper attempts to provide a partial description of the main differences between European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese concerning the form and interpretation of temporal adverbials. Two temporal domains are described in relatively more detail:
Ana Teresa Alves, Telmo Móia
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Characteristics of the vowel system of the Standard Portuguese spoken in Angola

Revista de Filología Románica, 2016
This article relates to specific areas of Phonetics and Phonology. It is intended, in effect, to highlight some characteristics of the educated spoken Portuguese in Angola, identified and collected from oral speeches of Angolan citizens and residents in ...
Márcio Undolo
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LE FAIT NATIONAL AU SAHARA OCCIDENTAL

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Studia Europaea, 2020
The National Phenomenon in Western Sahara. This article analyses the Western Sahraouian nation from the perspective of its nationalist efforts, which, in derivative interaction with its enemies, rely on revolutionary cultural production.
Joana APÓSTOLO
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Emphatic polarity in European Portuguese and beyond [PDF]

Lingua, 2013
Abstract This paper deals with denials. ‘Emphatic polarity’ is here approached from a well-defined perspective that focuses on the syntactic expression of reversing reactions to assertions. Three syntactic strategies to convey emphatic affirmation in the Romance languages are described and their distribution across languages elucidated, namely: the ...
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A review on speech recognition approaches and challenges for Portuguese: exploring the feasibility of fine-tuning large-scale end-to-end models

EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing
At present, automatic speech recognition has become an important bridge for human-computer interaction and is widely applied in multiple fields. The Portuguese speech recognition task is gradually receiving attention due to its unique language stance ...
Yan Li, Yapeng Wang, Lap Man Hoi, Dingcheng Yang, Sio-Kei Im   +4 more
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Nasal vowels and diphthongs in European Portuguese: a problem for Slovene speakers

Linguistica, 2017
Portuguese, a Romance language, and Slovene, a Slavic language, are distant in the geographical, historical, cultural and linguistic senses. There are not many contrastive studies of these two languages, and even fewer in the phonetic-phonological field.
Blažka Müller Pograjc, Jasmina Markič
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Null Subjects in European and Brazilian Portuguese

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2005
The goals of this paper are twofold: a) to provide a structural account of the effects of the informal ‘Avoid Pronoun Principle’, proposed in Chomsky (1981: 65) for the Null Subject Languages (NSLs), and b) to compare, in European and Brazilian Portuguese (EP and BP), the distribution of the third person pronouns in its full and null forms, to check ...
Barbosa, Pilar, Kato, Mary, Duarte, Eugênia   +2 more
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FUTURE TENSE IN THE PORTUGUESE LINGUISTIC TRADITION

Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2018
The paper deals with the concept of the Future tense found in the Portuguese linguistic tradition. As the Portuguese linguistics appeared in the context of the European linguistic tradition, the first part of the article features the main views on the ...
P. E. Egizaryan
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Sluicing in Wh Embedded Interrogatives and in Free Relatives in European Portuguese

Catalan Journal of Linguistics
Sluicing has been classically taken as a construction that involves embedded wh-questions. However, in the last two decades some studies have shown that it may also occur in some kinds of relative clauses, namely in Free relatives.
Gabriela Matos, Nádia Canceiro
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Perceptual categorization of English vowels by native European Portuguese speakers

Revista Linguística, 2018
This study reports the results of a perceptual assimilation task (PAT) used to assess the degree of perceived cross-language (dis)similarity between the vowel inventories of European Portuguese (L1) and American English (L2) and, thus, predict difficulty
Anabela Rato
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