Questão 2935507

Língua Inglesa · 2025

Questão

ID 2935507

Disciplina: Língua Inglesa

Assunto: Fonética e Pronúncia | Phonetics And Pronunciation

Ano: 2025 Banca: FACET Concursos Órgão: Prefeitura Municipal de Congo

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“In English, minimal pairs such as ship/sheep or bat/bet illustrate how vowel quality determines lexical meaning, while in Portuguese, vowel length does not carry contrastive value.”

Which option correctly explains the phonological difference?

Alternativa A:
English emphasizes stress exclusively, while Portuguese depends primarily on nasalized vowels.
Alternativa B:
Portuguese reduces semantic contrasts, while English maintains identical rules for stressed syllables.
Alternativa C:
Portuguese distinguishes lexical items by diphthongs, unlike English use of minimal consonant pairs.
Alternativa D:
English and Portuguese exhibit identical phonological systems, differing only in suprasegmental rhythm.
Alternativa E:
English distinguishes words through vowel length and quality, unlike Portuguese vowel system.

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