Psi-Lord wrote:Well, it's true that, on my English classes, I've also been taught that schwa never occurs in stressed syllables (Merriam-Webster even defines 'schwa' as 'an unstressed mid-central vowel', and the Cambridge Advanced Learner's dictionary defines it as 'the weak vowel sound in some syllables that are not emphasized'); however, I've already heard things about stressed schwas in other languages (such as in some dialects of Catalan), so I don't really know what to think about it. Hey, Pittsboy, where are you now?
Anonymous wrote:there is a stressed schwa in some variaties of Paulista-portuguese where
a in ama, dano, cana sounds like a schwa
Anonymous wrote:I would say that many Brazilians use schwa when pronouncing final -a:
dona, ama, Ana
I have a Paulistano friend who does the same.
Many people do this closing (even in VOZ DO BRASIL @ radiobrás).
Thaïs also offered a plain a in this situation as an alternative.
Thaïs' book is great.
I love the part in which she stated NH and LH were not pronounced
like in Portugal (in most speakers)
btw
langenscheidt portuguese dictionary (by Melhoramentos SP) also
uses schwa for final unstressed a in Brazilian Portuguese.
Furthermore, they used schwa for nasalized a (like in cama, ama) which is totally Paulistano.
Pittsboy wrote:she uses /@/ for the Brazilian Portuguese word-final unstressed /a/ as in "cama" which is totally incorrect, since this occurs in Portuguese but not in Brazilian Portuguese, which is rather a "turned a" than anything else....
Pittsboy wrote:schwas in that position occur in Portugal as I am concerned.
Psi-Lord wrote:As for the nh, that's a discussion we had with my former Linguistics teacher to which I never got to any conclusions.
E}{pugnator, believe it or not, I found those totally by accident while digging some words in Aurélio, hehehehe... I was like totally surprised to find out it had made its way into Portuguese. Now I need a Houaiss to check and see whether they're still present almost 15 years after Aurélio published them. ('xuá' reminds me of 'axé', hehe)
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