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Brazil (Mineiro / Minas Gerais)
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Brazil · Minas Gerais
Mineiro speech is famous for swallowing whole unstressed syllables (uai virou 'uai' but 'está' becomes 'tá', 'para' becomes 'pra') and for heavy unstressed-vowel reduction, riding on the drawled 'uai' prosody.
Heavy syncopation: whole unstressed syllables dropHeavy unstressed-vowel reductionDrawled, lengthened final syllables ('uai' prosody)/t d/ palatalize before /i/
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Every phonetic parameter that deviates from this schema’s diffing anchor, with a plain-English gloss.
| Feature | Value | Meaning | Drill |
|---|---|---|---|
| Languagelanguage | pt | Drill | |
| Mixed Languagesmixed_languages | — | Drill | |
| S Treatments_treatment | standard | Drill | |
| D Intervocalicd_intervocalic | standard | Drill | |
| D Finald_final | standard | Drill | |
| Final Consonant Dropfinal_consonant_drop | none | Drill | |
| Vowel Reductionvowel_reduction | muted_devocalized | Drill | |
| Hiatus Resolutionhiatus_resolution | syncopate | Drill | |
| Syncopationsyncopation | Yes | Drill | |
| Final Syllable Lengtheningfinal_syllable_lengthening | Yes | Drill | |
| Vowel Nasalizationvowel_nasalization | phonemic | Drill | |
| Mid Vowel Qualitymid_vowel_quality | seven_vowel_open_close | Drill | |
| T D Palatalizationt_d_palatalization | before_high_front | Drill | |
| L Vocalizationl_vocalization | Yes | Drill | |
| Final Vowel Raisingfinal_vowel_raising | Yes | Drill |