Re: Emphasis allophonies?

On: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 14:35:09 -0500
Carlos Thompson wrote:
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> One of the features of Hangkerimce is the existence of many allophonies,
> many of them are caused by sourronding sounds and accentuation, but also
> there are allophonies caused by the emphasis a morpheme has in the speech=
.
>
> Are there any natural language that has this kind of allophony present?
        Only now, after seeing some other replies, I could understand
what you say. Portuguese* has somethings like that.
        Ex.:
                - "n=e3o" /n~aw/ when before verbs is /n~u/. But, when
                  enfasized, even before verbs, is /n~aw/.
                - "este" /eZti/ /ezti/ is only spoke when enfasized,
                  otherwise it's /esi/.

* Note the when I say "Portuguese", I'm talking mainly about Brazilian
  Portuguese. I can assert few about the European Portuguese.
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