Abstract

This work aims to outline the historical route of Portuguese stress, through the analysis of three cmcial points in the language temporal continuum: LATIN, ARCHAIC PORTUGUESE, anel BRAzmAN PORTUGUESE. TIle emphasis is given to the description of the Archaic Portuguese stress attribution process, anel the corpus is constituteel by aU the cantigas ele amigo· of the Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa, composeel between the enel of the XIIth century anel the beginning of the XIVth century. The theoretical framework adopteel here comes from the conceptions of parametric change - following Lightfoat (1991) - anel af nanlinear phonology - specially Hayes' (1991) metrical theory anel Mohanan's (1986) lexical theory. The analysis shows that aU these three perioels of the language adopt the sarne rhythmic basic foot (the moraic trochee) - anel the sarne choice referring to the setting of aU other rhythmic parameters vaue. The only exception is the value of the extrametrical constituent parameter. We concluele that there is no change in the. stress mie from Latin to Brazilian Portuguese. The changes verified in the extrametrical constituent parameter value setting are, in fact, consequence of a major linguistic change, not in the formulation of the stress rule itself, but in the moelule of its application (from postlexical to lexical component), in the Grammar, and in its elomain of application.

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  • 111is work aims to outline the historical route of Portuguese stress, through the analysis of three cmcial points in the language temporal continuum: LATIN, ARCHAIC PORTUGUESE, anel BRAzmAN PORTUGUESE

  • The analysis shows that aU these three perioels of the language adopt the sarne rhythmic basic foot (the moraic trochee) - anel the sarne choice referring to the setting of aU other rhythmic parameters va\ue

  • A mudança observada no português não pode ser considerada paramétrica, já que quase todos os valores dos par;Imetros do ritmo se mantêm (com exceção do valor do parâmetro do constituinte extramétrico; a mudança do seu valor, entretanto, é conseqüência de uma reanálise anterior, e não causa da principal mudança observada na acentuação do PA): o que se altera é o domÚlio de aplicação da regra (grupo clítico, no latim, e palavra, em PA e PB); altera-se, também (e principalmente), o módulo de aplicação desta regra (de pós-lexical a lexical)

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111is work aims to outline the historical route of Portuguese stress, through the analysis of three cmcial points in the language temporal continuum: LATIN, ARCHAIC PORTUGUESE, anel BRAzmAN PORTUGUESE. O primeiro grupo (majoritário) elege o nível prosódico mais baixo, o do pé, e é por isto que as sílabas átonas de final de verso fazem parte da estrutura poética (todos os elementos do pé devem ser contados) - (l2a).

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