Status referencial no Português Brasileiro: Estudo das pistas acústicas de novo, dado e acessível

Resumo

The present study has as objective to describe which acoustic parameters are related to the prosodic marking of referential status in BP. Recent proposals in the Information Structure area suggest that new and given information are in fact ends of a continnum of possible states for discourse referents. Our results show that the relative position of the referent in the utterance has a great influence in how the prosody is manifested and that duration and average fo are parameters related to the distinction between new referents and given and accessible ones.