Prosody in Language Documentation
A proposal for analysis of Macanese Portuguese and Maquista
I will be presenting the methodological outline for the work I have been doing with LabFon at the university of Lisbon, its theoretical outline and possible impact in areas such as typology, prosody, contact linguistics and the documentation of the Maquista language as a whole.
The poster will focus on giving a brief overview of the state of Maquista and Portuguese, I will focus on the why prosody might be useful for documentation even at an early phase, giving examples of syntactic isomorphy with prosodic grammar and further outline a hypothesis for a possible Sprachbund effect going on with the languages, especially the contact languages, of the South China Sea with some of my preliminary observations to further encourage research into this topic.
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Gabriel C. Neves
I am a Macau born Portuguese student of linguistics and I am very passionate about language...