TY - BOOK ID - 101703591 TI - Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese Pronunciation AU - Simões, Antônio Roberto Monteiro AU - SpringerLink (Online service) PY - 2022 SN - 9789811319969 PB - Singapore Springer Nature Singapore :Imprint: Springer DB - UniCat KW - Spanish language. KW - Portuguese language KW - Portuguese language. KW - Romance languages KW - Castilian language KW - Language and languages KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Romance languages. KW - Education. KW - Philosophy of Language. KW - Phonology and Phonetics. KW - Romance Languages. KW - Philosophy. KW - Phonology. KW - Children KW - Education, Primitive KW - Education of children KW - Human resource development KW - Instruction KW - Pedagogy KW - Schooling KW - Students KW - Youth KW - Civilization KW - Learning and scholarship KW - Mental discipline KW - Schools KW - Teaching KW - Training KW - Neo-Latin languages KW - Italic languages and dialects KW - Grammar, Comparative and general Phonology KW - Phonology KW - Education UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101703591 AB - This book contrasts variations in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation, using as a reference for discussion the mainstream careful speech of news anchors at the national level or the equivalent type of speech: a well-educated style that nonetheless sounds natural. Pursuing an innovative approach, the book uses this view of language as a cornerstone to describe and discuss other social and regional variants relative to that speaking register. It is aimed at speakers of Spanish interested in learning Portuguese and speakers of Portuguese who want to learn Spanish, as well as language specialists interested in bilingualism, heritage languages, in the teaching of typologically similar languages in contrast, and readers with interest in Phonetics and Phonology. The book employs a variety of innovative approaches, especially the reinterpretation of some of the traditional concept in Phonetics, and the use of speech prosodies and speech melodies, a user-friendly strategy to describe speech prosody in languages and speech melody in music through musical notation. ER -