Abstract
RESUMO Fonte (2010a b 2014
Highlights
This study aims to present the data collected by Fonte (2010a,b; 2014), in order to: i. publish the findings of this research, which brings relevant information on the pronunciation of a past period of the Portuguese language that has left no oral registers; and ii. analyze the debate brought by the author, giving rise to speculations about the possible reasons that would have made the raising rule more common, in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), among the word-final posttonic vowels than among the pretonic vowels – exactly the opposite of what probably occurred in the 16th-century Portuguese
The findings reported by Fonte (2010a,b; 2014) are presented and discussed by analyzing the orthographic practices of these three poetical works in that they represent the unstressed vowels from the 13th, 15th and 16th centuries
The data presented over this paper, which Fonte (2010a,b; 2014) obtained from the analysis of the orthographic practices in Cantigas de Santa Maria, Cancioneiro Geral and Os Lusíadas, provide clues on the pronunciation of the unstressed vowels of ancient Portuguese and, propose an interesting reflection about the spread of the raising rule in pretonic and posttonic vowels of Portuguese throughout the history
Summary
■■ ABSTRACT: In contemporary European Portuguese, mid vowel raising rule operates in all unstressed contexts: pretonic (p[ ]gar [to take], t[u]car [to touch]) or posttonic (núm[ ] r[u] [number], árv[u]r[ ] [tree], pel[ ] [skin], pel[u] [fur]). In order to investigate the process of unstressed mid vowel raising throughout the history of Portuguese, this paper presents and compares data from the 13th, 15th and 16th centuries, that suggest the productivity of the raising rule in pretonic and posttonic vowels in these periods.
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