出版社：EDUFU - Editora da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
摘要：In this paper, we provide a constraint-based analysis of main stress location in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) non-verbs, departing from the assumption that stress is quantity sensitive in non-verbal words.Based on the native speakers’ treatment of newly created vocabulary, we separate productive and unproductive stress patterns.In BP, main stress respects a three-syllable window, which we interpret at the theoretical level as a left-dominant mainstress constituent, which must be aligned with the right edge of the word.Universal conditions on branching structure restrict the maximal size of the main-stress constituent to three syllables.
