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Um Estudo Acústico sobre os Aspectos Prosódicos de uma Expressão Idiomática do Inglês Norte-Americano e do Português Brasileiro

2010; PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE SÃO PAULO; Volume: 31; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

2318-7115

Sergio Augusto Mauad,

Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies

This article reports on an investigation, in an L2 context, of the use of acoustic phonetics to characterize the intonational patterns of an idiom in utterances produced by bilingual speakers (English and Portuguese). The study is mainly grounded on Bolinger´s Pitch Accent Model (1986;1989;1998) and on the experimental work conducted by Moraes (1998) and Rocca (2003;2007) for both Portuguese and English. The sentences were extracted from a dialogue, and the recordings were supervised in studio. The acoustic analysis of the speech productions was carried out by means of the PRAAT software program.