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discriminação de pés com cabeça à direita

English translation: makes a distinction between [right-headed feet and]

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Portuguese term or phrase:discriminação de pés com cabeça à direita
English translation:makes a distinction between [right-headed feet and]
Entered by: zabrowa

12:33 Jan 10, 2015
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Linguistics / theoretical linguistics
Portuguese term or phrase: discriminação de pés com cabeça à direita
O que se nota, é que, mesmo sem utilizar a nomenclatura atribuída ao inventário de pés, a descrição oscila entre a discriminação de pés com cabeça à direita (como iambos) e pés com cabeça à esquerda (como troqueus).

Even without using the nomenclature attributed to the foot inventory, the description oscillates between foot discrimination with head to the right (such as iambs) and foot discrimination with head to the left (such as trochees).
zabrowa
Local time: 18:50
makes a distinction between [right-headed feet and]
Explanation:
I would ignore "oscila" - it's just verbiage that's confusing the idea. I would say:

Even without using the nomenclature *from* the foot inventory, the description makes a distinction between right-headed feet (such as iambs) and left-footed feet (such as trochees)'.
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Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 09:50
Grading comment
Great tip re: ignoring OSCILA. That makes it much clearer. Grateful to have the input of an expert in PT linguistics!
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4 +2makes a distinction between [right-headed feet and]
Muriel Vasconcellos
3 +1discrimination between right-headed feet
T o b i a s


  

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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
discrimination between right-headed feet


Explanation:
... and left-headed feet (such as trochees).

See for example "A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics" David Crystal, p. 226
http://www.mohamedrabeea.com/books/book1_3891.pdf


T o b i a s
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PRO pts in category: 8

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agree  Rodrigo Cayres
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20 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
makes a distinction between [right-headed feet and]


Explanation:
I would ignore "oscila" - it's just verbiage that's confusing the idea. I would say:

Even without using the nomenclature *from* the foot inventory, the description makes a distinction between right-headed feet (such as iambs) and left-footed feet (such as trochees)'.

Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 09:50
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 2542
Grading comment
Great tip re: ignoring OSCILA. That makes it much clearer. Grateful to have the input of an expert in PT linguistics!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Rodrigo Cayres: Your translated sentence is quite good.
4 hrs
  -> Thanks, Rodrigo. Very nice of you. (Portuguese linguistics was my graduate minor.)
agree  T o b i a s: Better.
1 day 2 hrs
  -> Thanks, Tobias. Very kind of you.
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