In this paper, syllable duration (Vowel-to-Vowel unit) and F0 variation are analyzed as cues to distinguish the prosodization of prepositional clitic-host sequence from a syllable within a prosodic word in Brazilian ...

Purpose: to verify if hesitations would occur, preferably, in strong or weak positions of four of the prosodic constituents: phonological utterance, intonational phrase, phonological phrase and clitic group. Methods: the ...

This paper establishes the featural and prosodic representations of the Nivacle (Mataguayan)glottal stop. On the one hand, it is proposed that the Nivacle glottal stop is unspecified for place features, but specified for ...