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Estudos comparativos do léxico da fauna e flora Aruák
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2007-08) BRANDÃO, Ana Paula Barros; FACUNDES, Sidney da Silva
Apurinã, Piro and Iñapari, members of the Arawak linguistic family, are initially compared on the basis of the data used by Payne (1991) for the Arawak linguistic reconstruction, and of the phonological correspondences presented in Facundes (2000, 2002). Based on the evidence of subgrouping that emerges from this comparison, cognates pertinent to the semantic field of fauna and flora are established. The results are then used to examine three issues: what do lexical retentions say about the internal classification of these languages in the family? What cognates are likely to be reconstructable to an earlier stage in the evolution of these languages? And, finally, what inferences can be made about the past of these peoples on the basis of the reconstructable semantics of fauna and flora?
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Observações sobre os correlatos acústicos do acento em Apurinã (Aruák): estudo de um caso
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2015-04) SANTOS, Benedito de Sales; FACUNDES, Sidney da Silva
This article investigates the hypothesis of duration being an acoustic correlate of stress in Apurinã, taking into account the results given by other authors. Cross-linguistic studies have suggested such a correlation. In this study duration is investigated in unstressed syllables, and in ones bearing primary and secondary stress. The article reviews previous work on Apurinã stress and then presents and analyzes new data. These results suggest a correlation between duration and primary stress only, and raise questions about the phonetic nature of such a correlation. The results also raise a theoretical question in phonology, namely the status of syllables with nasal vowels, which seem to behave like heavy or bimoraic syllables.