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The acquisition of a marked stress pattern in Brazilian Portuguese as a Heritage Language: a case study
Heglyn Pimenta (UMR 7023 SFL - Université Paris 8/CNRS)
In Brazilian Portuguese (BP) stress assignment occurs within a three-syllable window. Within this window, proparoxytones are marked (Wetzels 2007, Magalhães 2016), as reflected in their relatively low number in the lexicon (Viaro & Guimarães-Filho 2007) and in their low use frequency (Araujo & al. 2008). Furthermore, they are acquired later than other stress patterns (Vargens 2021), and speakers can employ various strategies to transform them into unmarked paroxytones (Gomes 2012). In this talk, I will present data from a naturalistic longitudinal fieldwork conducted with a bilingual child acquiring BP as a Heritage Language (HL) and French as the majority language. I will compare the acquisition of BP proparoxytones with that of marked and unmarked paroxytones, revealing both the similarities and the differences with the acquisition of antepenultimate stress by BP monolinguals as reported in the literature (Vargens 2021).
