torna invisível

English translation: renders ... invisible

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Portuguese term or phrase:torna invisível
English translation:renders ... invisible
Entered by: zabrowa

14:17 Jan 11, 2015
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Linguistics / theoretical linguistics
Portuguese term or phrase: torna invisível
Para dar conta da representação métrica desses fatos, tem-se postulado um regra idiossincrática que torna invisível a consoante final das paroxítonas e a sílaba final das proparoxítonas.

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To account for the metrical representation of these facts, an idiosyncratic rule has been postulated which makes the final consonant of paroxytones and the final syllable of proparoxytones invisible.
zabrowa
Local time: 14:50
renders ... invisible
Explanation:
It's OK except for "torna," which is more commonly terms 'renders' in a context like this. See:

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0226381013
Sharon Inkelas, ‎Draga Zec - 1990 - ‎Language Arts & Disciplines
For instance, in many languages word-final consonants devoice when the ... Extraprosodicity **renders a consonant or consonants invisible** for purposes of the ...

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Note added at 8 hrs (2015-01-11 23:09:00 GMT)
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Oops! I means to say: "which is more commonly *termed* ..."

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Note added at 8 hrs (2015-01-11 23:10:04 GMT)
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See rendering in this context:

www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01037-kannada.pdf
Unicode Consortium
Memory representation and **Rendering order. 4. 1.9. Rules for rendering**. 4. 1.10. **Invisible Consonant**. 5. 1.11. Explicit Halant. 5. 1.12. Consonant Clusters with ...

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Note added at 8 hrs (2015-01-11 23:13:29 GMT)
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See also:

www.cog.brown.edu:16080/courses/.../Repetti (199...
Brown University
Nov 11, 2004 - tial consonant of the following word: a casa [akkéézal parlo bene ..... is **rendered invisible to metrical rules**, so that "the relevant rules ig-.

brahmi.sourceforge.net/docs/KannadaComputing.html
Their rendered forms in Kannada resemble the full consonant with vertical stem ..... by using **the invisible zero width consonant** just after the dead consonant.

Morphological Sources of Phonological Length
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0549875107
Anne Pycha - 2008
[l], where the final consonant is extra-prosodic). ... in case epenthesis and re-syllabification at later levels render it an intervocalic onset” (1995: 776). ... **these otherwise invisible consonants**, and 3) syllabification as a form of “pre-specification.
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Muriel Vasconcellos
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Local time: 05:50
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renders ... invisible


Explanation:
It's OK except for "torna," which is more commonly terms 'renders' in a context like this. See:

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0226381013
Sharon Inkelas, ‎Draga Zec - 1990 - ‎Language Arts & Disciplines
For instance, in many languages word-final consonants devoice when the ... Extraprosodicity **renders a consonant or consonants invisible** for purposes of the ...

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 8 hrs (2015-01-11 23:09:00 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Oops! I means to say: "which is more commonly *termed* ..."

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 8 hrs (2015-01-11 23:10:04 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

See rendering in this context:

www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01037-kannada.pdf
Unicode Consortium
Memory representation and **Rendering order. 4. 1.9. Rules for rendering**. 4. 1.10. **Invisible Consonant**. 5. 1.11. Explicit Halant. 5. 1.12. Consonant Clusters with ...

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Note added at 8 hrs (2015-01-11 23:13:29 GMT)
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See also:

www.cog.brown.edu:16080/courses/.../Repetti (199...
Brown University
Nov 11, 2004 - tial consonant of the following word: a casa [akkéézal parlo bene ..... is **rendered invisible to metrical rules**, so that "the relevant rules ig-.

brahmi.sourceforge.net/docs/KannadaComputing.html
Their rendered forms in Kannada resemble the full consonant with vertical stem ..... by using **the invisible zero width consonant** just after the dead consonant.

Morphological Sources of Phonological Length
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0549875107
Anne Pycha - 2008
[l], where the final consonant is extra-prosodic). ... in case epenthesis and re-syllabification at later levels render it an intervocalic onset” (1995: 776). ... **these otherwise invisible consonants**, and 3) syllabification as a form of “pre-specification.

Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 05:50
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PRO pts in category: 2542
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