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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2016
Stressed syllables in European Portuguese contrast seven oral vowels, /i, u, e, o, ε, ɔ, a/, which are reduced to a simpler four-vowel set in unstressed syllables. Although /a/ never undergoes any phonological neutralization through vowel reduction, it has a raised allophone [ɐ] which occurs in several environments
I would like to thank Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho, Elan Dresher, Ross Godfrey, Daniel Currie Hall, Keren Rice, and an anonymous CJL/RCL reviewer for comments on earlier versions of this squib. Work on this topic has also benefited from presentation to audiences at the 44th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages and at the University of Toronto. Responsibility for any remaining errors or shortcomings is entirely my own.