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<p> <span style="font-family: TTE4AC1E60T00; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Abstract</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: TTE268A4A8T00; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">This paper discusses the primary stress rules of Brazilian Portuguese </span></span><span style="font-family: TTE268A4A8T00; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">(BP). I argue that i) the primary stress rules are category sensitive –</span></span><span style="font-family: TTE268A4A8T00; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">there are two distinct rules in BP: one for non-verb forms which applies </span></span><span style="font-family: TTE268A4A8T00; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">at the derivational level (level) and the other for verb forms which </span></span><span style="font-family: TTE268A4A8T00; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">applies at the inflectional level (level); ii) the primary stress rules are </span></span><span style="font-family: TTE268A4A8T00; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">quantity-insensitive; iii) the extrametricality is determined by </span></span><span style="font-family: TTE268A4A8T00; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">morphology and is subject to Peripherality Condition.</span></span></p>