Syllable-timing in Brazilian Portuguese: uma crítica a Roy Major

This paper reintroduces the discussion about stress-timing in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). It begins by surveying some phonetic and phonological issues raised by the syllable- vs stress-timed dichotomy which culminated with the emergence of the p-center notion. Strict considerations of timing of V-V units and stress groups are taken into account to analyze the long term coupling of two basic oscillators (vowel and stress flow). This coupling allows a two-parameter characterization of language rhythms (coupling strength and speech rate) revealing that BP utterances present a high-degree of syllable-timing. A comparison with other languages, including European Portuguese, is also presented. The results analyzed indicate that Major's arguments for considering Portuguese (sic) as stress-timing are misleading.

Roy Campbell (1901-1957): o hispanista escocês da África Austral

Cinquenta anos após o trágico desaparecimento de Roy Campbell, em acidente rodoviário ocorrido próximo de Setúbal, vale a pena revisitar a figura deste poeta e hispanista de ascendência escocesa, nascido em Durban, cuja actividade lusófila o torna merecedor de um estudo fatalmente mais vasto do que este artigo visa empreender. Não obstante a importância das vivências sul-africanas e espanholas (por exemplo, o testemunho presencial da eclosão, em 1936, da Guerra Civil), a orientação comparativista desta publicação justifica que privilegiemos as vertentes inglesa e anglo-portuguesa de Roy Campbell, começando por apontar, no que toca à primeira e além do parentesco (familiar, que não político-ideológico...) com George Orwell (1903-1950), a contemporaneidade e os contactos mantidos com poetas, romancistas, ensaístas e críticos como Wyndham Lewis (1884-1957), os irmãos Sitwell (Edith, 1887-1964, Osbert, 1892-1969 e Sacheverell, 1897-1988), T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), 5 Vita Sackville- West (1892-1962), L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), Robert Graves (1895-1985), Edmund Blunden (1896-1974), o também sul-africano Laurens Van der Post (1906-1996) e Dylan Thomas (1914-1953).

Roentgenologic studies of Egyptian and Peruvian mummies / by Roy L. Moodie -- ; Berthold Laufer --, editor.

v.3(1931)

Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N.

(1873 printing)

The Paragould meteorite / Sharat Kumar Roy -- and Robert Kriss Wyant --

v.10:no.23(1955)

A restudy of the 1917 eruption of Volcán Boquerón, El Salvador, Central America / Sharat Kumar Roy --

v.10:no.30(1957)

The Navajo meteorite, by Sharat Kumar Roy -- and Robert Kriss Wyant --.

v.7:no.8(1949)

The Walters meteorite / Sharat Kumar Roy -- , Jewell J. Glass -- [and] Edward P. Henderson --.

v.10:no.37(1960)

The Smithonia meteorite / by Sharat Kumar Roy -- and Robert Kriss Wyant --.

v.7:no.9(1950)

The Mapleton meteorite / by Sharat Kumar Roy -- and Robert Kriss Wyant --.

v.7:no.7(1949)

Fresh-water limestone from the Torola Valley, northeastern El Salvador / Sharat Kumar Roy -- and Robert Kriss Wyant --.

v.10:no.16(1953)