The Phonology of Portuguese

Maria Helena Mira Mateus, Full Professor in the Faculty of Letters Maria Helena Mateus, Ernesto d'Andrade Pardal, Ernesto d' Andrade, Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Faculty of Letters Ernesto D'Andrade

Oxford University Press, 2000 - Foreign Language Study - 162 pages

In this book, the authors provide an accurate description of the phonological system of Portuguese, comparing the main phenomena of the two most widely extended varieties of the language within the light of current phonological theories. This book's importance and interest lie in the unique characteristics that give Portuguese a special place among the Romance languages.

About the author

Maria Helena Mateus is Full Professor in the Faculty of Letters at the University of Lisbon. She has studied within the field of linguistics in both Portugal and Brazil, and between 1982 and 1998 gave seminars on Portuguese linguistics in Cape-Verde, Cuba, EUA, France, Germany, Ireland, Macau, Mozambique, and Sweden.

Ernesto d'Andrade is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Faculty of Letters at the University of Lisbon. Prior to 1975 he taught in the universities of Paris VIII and Paris XIII. He has taught courses and seminars in Cape Verde, Mozambique, Brazil, and France, and given talks on Phonology, Portuguese linguistics, and Sociolinguistics in, among other countries, Belgium, Brazil, France, Holland, Mozambique, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the USA.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Phonology of Portuguese; Oxford linguistics; Phonology of the world's languages
• Authors: Maria Helena Mira Mateus, Full Professor in the Faculty of Letters Maria Helena Mateus, Ernesto d'Andrade Pardal, Ernesto d' Andrade, Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Faculty of Letters Ernesto D'Andrade
• Editor: Oxford University Press
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2000
• ISBN: 019823581X, 9780198235811
• Length: 162 pages
• Subjects: Foreign Language Study / Portuguese; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General