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Contemporary Phonology in Brazil
Editor: Leda Bisol and Cláudia Regina Brescancini
Date Of Publication: May 2008
Isbn13: 9781847185402
Isbn: 1-84718-540-1
Contemporary Phonology in Brazil is a collection of phonological studies in Brazilian Portuguese and Indigenous Brazilian Languages which are developed in Prosodic Phonology, Historical Change, Segmental Phonology, First Language Acquisition and Indigenous Languages.

The Prosodic Phonology is present in the following works about Brazilian Portuguese: Accommodation of intonational patterns in short utterances: compression or truncation; The stress of non-verbs in the Multidimensional Metrical Plane and Secondary stress, vowel reduction and rhythmic implementation.

The Historical Change is the subject of Sandhi: a comparative study between Archaic and Brazilian Portuguese; Clitic prosodization in Brazilian Portuguese: analysis of documents from the nineteenth century and Faithfulness demotion in the historical phonology of Portuguese: a constraint-based account.

The Segmental Phonology is the base of The nominal metaphony of Brazilian Portuguese in the light of the Optimality Theory; Allomorphy in the Brazilian Portuguese verbal system and Variable aspects of Brazilian Portuguese phonology: laterals in coda position.

First Language Acquisition comprises two studies: Phonological acquisition and phonological theory: formilizing patterns considering features and segments and Optimal geometries in the acquisition of Portuguese

Indigenous Languages are discussed in Brazilian Indigenous Languages: a brief history and some hope for the future; The rhythm class hypothesis and Indigenous Languages and The development of creaky voice in Munduruku.

Leda Bisol is Professor of Linguistics at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She taught previously at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Her research involves prosody, segmental phonology and variation and change.

Cláudia Regina Brescancini is Professor of Linguistics at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Her research focuses phonology, phonetics and variation and change in the evolution of Portuguese.

“Although Mattoso Câmara Junior’s work is still the point of reference for many studies in Brazilian Portuguese phonology, as the editors of this volume correctly state in their introduction, it is equally true that the person who has contributed most to the vitality of contemporary phonology in Brazil is Leda Bisol, of the Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), a renowned expert in contemporary phonology in Brazil whose name rightly graces the cover of this book. Contemporary Phonology in Brazil provides a representative cross-section of phonetic and phonological studies in Brazilian Portuguese (and even gives some attention to the indigenous languages of the country) thereby presenting an overview of the lively field of phonological research currently underway in Brazil. It addresses a gamut of historical and synchronic issues in phonological theory and analysis, intonation, language acquisition, and phonetics. This book is not only a necessary addition to the bookshelves of any scholar or student interested in Brazilian phonetics and phonology, but also recommended reading for those involved in or curious about comparative Romance phonetics and phonology.”

—W. Leo Wetzels, Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie (LPP), CNRS/Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle & VU University Amsterdam.

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