Overview of Portuguese speech sounds (articulation and transcription). The course provides perception and pronunciation training of Portuguese vowels, consonants, stress, intonation, and co-articulation phenomena in connected speech. The main focus will be on European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese, but differences between these two and other Portuguese accents will be discussed as well.
Overview of Portuguese speech sounds (articulation and transcription). The course provides perception and pronunciation training of Portuguese vowels, consonants, stress, intonation, and co-articulation phenomena in connected speech. The main focus will be on European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese, but differences between these two and other Portuguese accents will be discussed as well.