Research has demonstrated distinct roles for consonants and vowels in speech processing. For example, consonants have been shown to support lexical processes, such as the segmentation of speech based on transitional ...

This dissertation aims at investigating the variable segmental reduction in initial #(i)sC sequences in the Belo Horizonte variety of Brazilian Portuguese, in words such as escola [iskl] ~ [skl] ou skate [iske] ~ [ske]. ...

Identifying which units constitute the expressions of language remains an important issue in contemporary linguistic research. Is the way by which we have access to words influenced by the lexicon structure? Non lexicalist ...

The aim of this research is to characterize the hypo-segmentations in nineteenth-century manuscripts of the Municipal Council from the Rio Pardo City, in the Rio Grande do Sul, under the theoretical contribution of the ...