By Brazilian Ways: The Intonacional Variation Of Neutral Assertive Statments In Natal, Rio De Janeiro And Porto Alegre

Authors

  • Aline Ponciano dos Santos Silvestre Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
  • Cláudia de Souza Cunha Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Keywords:

Prosody, Intonational varieties, Brazilian Portuguese.

Abstract

Description of intonation in assertive statements in Portuguese spoken in Natal, Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre. In this article, we analyze the speech of 12 informants, men and women, equally distributed in three locations in different regions of Brazil, with the aim of describing intonational behaviors based on the corpus of the “Atlas Linguístico do Brasil” (ALiB). After analyzing the data using the computational program PRAAT, we have found, on the autossegmental and metric theory, the following phonological patterns: H*________ H+L*L%; L+H*_______H+L*L%; and L+H*________H+H*L%. Papers of this nature are relevant to the preparation of prosodic letters and to the description of Portuguese.

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Author Biographies

Aline Ponciano dos Santos Silvestre, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Mestre em Língua Portuguesa pela Universidade federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Atualmente, é bolsista de doutorado (CNPq) e professora substituta na mesma instituição.

Cláudia de Souza Cunha, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Professora Adjunta da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

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Published

2013-10-14

How to Cite

Silvestre, A. P. dos S., & Cunha, C. de S. (2013). By Brazilian Ways: The Intonacional Variation Of Neutral Assertive Statments In Natal, Rio De Janeiro And Porto Alegre. Letrônica, 6(1), 179–195. Retrieved from https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/letronica/article/view/13411

Issue

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

Section

Linguistics

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