O apagamento da vogal postônica não-final por falantes de Jaru – Estado de Rondônia

Abstract

This essay exams the phenomenon of syncope in post-tonic non-final vowel in proparoxytones from 36 dialect speakers in an urban and rural community of Jaru, Rondônia State (Brazil).We follow the theoretic bases of Sociolinguistics, a theory that had William Labov as its precursor. Other theories that are also important to develop this project were: Prosodic Phonology and especially Metric Phonology. Therefore, it is a non-experimental research with a quantitative, descriptive focus and aptitude. The aim is to define whether the language, from the region where the research has done, is in variation or in linguistic change. It has been shown that there are several factors that influenced the phenomenon of syncope in post-tonic non-final vowel, and age level was the principal group that determined its occurrence, followed by the interview type and educational level. Besides the analysis of the obtained results and discussion, it has been proved how the syncope of the post-tonic vowel occurs, as well as the formation of the paroxytones.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 2 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.