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Fernando Brissos
The traditional view on Portuguese central-southern dialects (CS) considers the existence of two idiosyncratic areas in the central-interior and southwestern parts of the country which break CS’ general homogeneity. Brissos (2014) however, presents acoustic data from which can be seen that several linguistic phenomena, usually circumscribed to those two areas, indeed exist in other distant and scattered locales not encompassed in the standard area split. Additionally, Brissos/Saramago (2014) present auditory data which corroborate Brissos’ (2014) fundamental conclusions. These facts suggest a revision of the traditional overview of CS and demand further testing: an analysis of all remaining dialectal features of CS (and not only some specific phenomena) must be conducted. This paper thus presents an extensive corpus of the dialectal features existing in CS (comprising the same area analyzed by Brissos 2014) and carries on that analysis. A new overview of those dialects is proposed.
