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This research work presents a study on voiceless stop variants for Brazilian Portuguese (BP). The analysis of these variants is based on voice onset time (VOT) measurements. By considering a semi-spontaneous speech corpus, the presence of aspiration in BP voiceless stops is verified. Concerning velar and alveolar stops, the aspirated variant is more frequent than the unaspirated one. Through VOT measurements, the presence of slightly aspirated stops is pointed out in such an analysis. The distribution of the variants with respect to the stress position in the syllable is also assessed.
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Alves, M.A., Seara, I.C., Pacheco, F.S., Klein, S., Seara, R. (2008). On the Voiceless Aspirated Stops in Brazilian Portuguese. In: Teixeira, A., de Lima, V.L.S., de Oliveira, L.C., Quaresma, P. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5190. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85980-2_31
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