NOUNS AND VERBS OF ITALIAN LANGUAGE IN CONTRAST TO PORTUGUESE: REFLECTIONS FOR A PEDAGOGY OF HETEROTONIC WORDS

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to show how six bilingual dictionaries record information regarding lexical units that are graphically similar, in Portuguese and Italian, but whose stressed syllables are different. This strategy of signaling the different stressed syllable, especially of the verbs conjugated in same tenses, despite not requiring much space and being of fundamental importance in bilingual Italian-Portuguese dictionaries, by facilitating the development of classroom activities, it is still very little explored.