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This paper presents the development and the results from the master degree research Samba and Bossa Nova: a study of aspects of the music-text relationship. The aim of the research was search, in recordings of samba and Bossa Nova, linguistic elements that characterize the “spoken song”, i.e., the singing at the threshold of speech, having as theoretical base the prosodic phonology. Three songs of each music style were selected so the following aspects could be analyzed: stops executed by singers in comparison with the phonological segmentations relevant to Brazilian Portuguese; lexical stress and its relationship with the accumulation of musical accents – pitch, duration and metric position; alignment between melody, lyrics and and rhythm of instrumental accompaniment. The results showed that the aspects analyzed are related in such a way as to contribute to the maintenance of Brazilian Portuguese prosody in popular singing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]