Chapter published in:
Bare Nominals in Brazilian Portuguese: An integral approach
Albert Wall
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 245] 2017
► pp. 105–160

Chapter 3
Article assimilation and bare nominals

Article outline
  • 3.1External vocalic sandhis in Brazilian Portuguese
    • 3.1.1Leda Bisol’s account of external sandhis in Brazilian Portuguese and reactions
    • 3.1.2Prosody
    • 3.1.3Restriction of EL to word-final /a/
    • 3.1.4The so-called “monomorphemes”
    • 3.1.5Fusion vs. deletion and the number of processes
    • 3.1.6A first balance
  • 3.2External sandhis and the (definite) articles
    • 3.2.1EL and DE with articles in unstressed contexts
    • 3.2.2DE with articles under word stress
    • 3.2.3Non-vocalic contexts
  • 3.3Evidence from perception: A forced choice experiment
    • 3.3.1Materials and experiment design
    • 3.3.2Results
    • 3.3.3Discussion
  • 3.4Contrasting European and Brazilian Portuguese
    • 3.4.1The corpus study
    • 3.4.2Feature coding
    • 3.4.3Results: The distribution of possible assimilation contexts
    • 3.4.4Discussion and conclusion
  • 3.5Vocalic articles in Romance languages
  • 3.6OCP-effects on Romance articles as evidence for syntactic status
    • 3.6.1A typology of OCP-effects in Romance
    • 3.6.2The phonological-perceptual hypothesis and encapsulated syntax