Unstressed Mid Vowel Variation In Brazilian Portuguese Spoken In Belem (PA)

Authors

  • Regina Celia Fernandes Cruz Universidade Federal do Para
  • Josivane Campos Sousa Polícia Militar do Estado do Pará

Keywords:

Unstressed vowel, Phonological variation, Brazilian Portuguese, PROBRAVO project.

Abstract

This work deals with mid vowel variation in unstressed (pretonic) vowel. We analyze this kind of vowel in Brazilian Portuguese spoken in Belem, Pará, northern Brazil. The corpus is formed by 1.434 data from 48 native speakers stratified by sex, age and school level. The results show that the mid variant is more frequent than the high and low variants in the Portuguese language spoken in the urban area of the city. The factor groups that condition the mid vowel in unstressed syllable production are: a) vowel in stressed syllable; b) distance between stressed and unstressed syllable; c) suffix; d) onset consonant; e) syllabic weight; f) school level and g) age

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Author Biographies

Regina Celia Fernandes Cruz, Universidade Federal do Para

Professora Associado II da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade Federal do Para, atuando tanto na graduacao quando na Pos-graduacao em Linguistica. Bolsista Produtividade do CNPq desde 2009.

Josivane Campos Sousa, Polícia Militar do Estado do Pará

Mestre em Linguística pela Universidade Federal do Pará (2010). Soldado da Polícia Militar do Estado do Pará.

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Published

2013-10-14

How to Cite

Cruz, R. C. F., & Sousa, J. C. (2013). Unstressed Mid Vowel Variation In Brazilian Portuguese Spoken In Belem (PA). Letrônica, 6(1), 26–46. Retrieved from https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/letronica/article/view/13401

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 1 (2013): Sociolinguística Variacionista & Weltliteratur hoje

Section

Linguistics

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