Learn Portuguese - The Language System
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PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE
Teacher: Kleber Kosta
PHONOLOGY
TOPIC: THE LANGUAGE SYSTEM
The NUMBER OF SIGNS of a language is UNLIMITED. We can make words any time
we want and through this way we can create words.
The NUMBER OF PHONEMS is LIMITED inside the linguistic system. Anyway, we still can make great quantity of signs exchanging one for another as you could see in the example of the word MATO.
Other examples:
Bata (imperative of to hit)
Cata (imperative of pick it up)
Data (date as a noun)
Gata (female cat, kitty)
Lata (can,tin)
More examples:
mata (the jungle)
nata (cream of milk)
pata (paw, hoof, duck)
rata (female rat)
chata (a woman who is really, really boring)
DOUBLE SLASHES represent PHONEMS ( / / ):
Examples:
Mato (grass) /m/ /a/ /t/ /o/
Mesa (table) /m/ /e/ /s/ /a/
Gata (female cat) /g/ /a/ /t/ /a/
SQUARE BRACKETS represent the SOUND UNITIES of speech ( [ ] )
Examples:
Mel (honey) [mɛl], [mɛw]
turismo (tourism) [tu' riʒmu]
Isto (this) ['iʃtu]
fácil (easy) ['fasju] (less)
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