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Read the excerpt: “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.” 6 Which option correctly explains the phonological difference?

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

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