The Role of Syllable Structure in the Acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese

Abstract

"According to Fery and Van de Vijver (2003), the 70’s were characterized, in the phonological studies, as the time when the syllable was considered as a prosodic unit, especially in the studies of Vennemann (1974), Hooper (1976) and Kahn (1976). There are two main lines of thought concerning the syllabic structure analysis: the first is the one developed by Kahn in 1976 and the second by Selkirk in 1982"