Auditory perceptual performance of children in the identification of contrasts between stressed vowels

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Análise entoacional acústica e auditiva de alguns enunciados do português brasileiro

The main goal of this work is the analysis of theoretical and methodological aspects of speech melody variation (intonation), with special reference to the pronunciation of one speaker. In order to carry on this study, different types of sentences (declarative, questions, etc.) and the intonational focus as well as the speaker‟s attitude (irony, emphasis, etc.) were observed and analyzed with special acoustic software (PRAAT) and with an auditory analysis of a text read by the subject. The aim of this work is to verify whether the acoustic analysis matches with the auditory perception phonetically, according to M.A.K. Halliday‟s methodology, following Cagliari (2007), who adapted Halliday‟s model to describe the intonation of Portuguese

Estudo acústico da variação da frase interrogativa, com destaque para o dialeto paulista

With the new computational technology, the studies of acoustic phonetics started to have a special place. This brought a new way of seeing the phenomenon and to deal with it in the phonetics and in the phonology. Such studies have been developing even more, recently, with a facilitated use of computational programs specially developed to the acoustic analysis of speech, such as PRAAT. Programs like this have been very interesting and useful recently. The acoustic models of analysis have influenced the way the researchers came to see and to interpret the prosodic phenomenon. The current project investigates the acoustic production of declarative and interrogative sentences from the “paulista” Portuguese. This study contributes for a more detailed description of the phenomenon, also becoming inserted in the chart of “intonational” descriptions of the Brazilian Portuguese. The subject of this current project is the acoustic study of some intonation aspects from the speaking Portuguese in Brazil, with a special place to the “paulista” dialect. The current project´s purpose is to make a specific study of interrogatives sentences through the acoustic data analysis of “paulista” dialect speakers

O acento em tupi antigo

O objetivo deste trabalho é estudar a lírica tupi de Pe. José de Anchieta, discutindo a possibilidade de análise do acento da língua tupi antiga, via métrica adotada pelo autor em seus poemas. De toda a sua obra poética, 18 poemas foram escritos inteiramente em língua tupi, 10 deles servindo como corpus para esta pesquisa. Como aporte teórico para essa análise foi utilizada a Fonologia não-linear - mais precisamente a Teoria Métrica de Hayes (1995) - e um modelo de abordagem baseado em Massini-Cagliari (1995,1999 e aorientações na área) para com o português arcaico. As poesias em enfoque foram observadas em várias versões da obra disponíveis (Anchieta 1954, 1984, 2004). Para a base do estudo tupi, foram utilizadas as gramáticas de Anchieta (1933) e Lemos Barbosa (1956), além de livros e textos de Navarro (2006a, 2006b) e Ayron Rodrigues (1958)

Revisão teórico bibliográfica sobre o espraiamento da nasalidade no português do Brasil com especial destaque para o dialeto paulista

O espraiamento da nasalização é um fenômeno observado desde estudos antigos sobre a língua portuguesa. Tanto com as consoantes nasais em posição de coda, quanto com elas em posição de onset, nota-se a interferência gerada nas vogais que as acompanham. O atual estudo aborda como eram percebidas e estudadas as nasais e seu espraiamento, demonstrando como a nasalização pode ser descrita, por seus segmentos fonéticos – demonstrando quais elementos a compõem – e por suas marcas suprassegmentais. Detalha-se também a importância de estudos realizados sobre a nasalidade dentro da geometria de traços. Faz-se levantamento geral do fenômeno do espraiamento da nasalidade, através de estudos gerais da nasalidade e da teoria fonética e fonológica relativa ao fenômeno

A produção de texto no ensino fundamental: uma experiência pedagógica

From a diagnostic on the learning of written text, this research aimed to carry out educational activities aimed at textual production, performing operation and activity of reflection on texts written by students in a learning situation of parallel recovery, aiming to improve the standard textuality of his written production. These actions were guided from the conception of language as social practice and discourse and, later, a survey was made in the standard of textuality textual productions resulting from such actions. 5 students participated in the research of a 4th grade of elementary school, a School of Duartina peripheral zone integrating the local school system of that city. The textual productions written by these students were analyzed from three categories: common mistakes in the process of literacy, with subdivisions: phonetic transcription, dialetação, hollow hipossegmentação or vocabulary, or improper separation hiperssegmentação, overcorrection, exchange, omission or addition letters, phonemes homorganic exchange; factors textual and contextual, in which it reviewed the following factors: coherence, cohesion and story elements, clarity, in which category were analyzed: the segmentation of text into paragraphs, grammar errors of different nature, use of direct and indirect speech. The results of the intervention and ongoing analysis of data shows that there has been considered developments in the performance of the written production of the research subjects

Construtivismo e métodos tradicionais: uma análise dos processos de alfabetização atuais

The constructivist methodology of literacy has been adopted in many schools, however, there are many criticism regarding the way teacher are devising the way how to teach children. To reflect on this aspect this research were carried out theoretical studies about the subject, as well as observations and reflections about the current process of literacy in Brazilian schools. Thus, in this research, the constructivist methodology of literacy was analyzed from its bases, in order to observe if the teachers are actually accomplishing their practice according to this “theory”, as well as the difficulties encountered by students on this methodology. Also was analyzed the methodology syllabic literacy, to be able to make a mapping of the positive aspects and the limitations presented by this method, in this way being able to reflect about adequacy of the analyzed methods of a better learning process of written language by children. This research aims to show that more important than the stark choice between a literacy method and the another is the commitment of the literacy teacher with the students who want to alphabetize, noting that the teacher should used, sometimes several methods to get the largest number of literate children in the classroom, emphasizing the work with good texts, so that children feel the taste and enjoyment of reading in their daily lives

O morfema de gerúndio 'ndo' no Português Brasileiro: análise fonológica e sociolinguística

Neste artigo, tratamos do processo fonológico de apagamento do /d/ no morfema de gerúndio “ndo” em uma variedade do Português Brasileiro. Com base em análise acústica e perceptual, verificamos que, quando /d/ tem seus parâmetros acústicos alterados, os ouvintes percebem seu apagamento no morfema de gerúndio. Essa correlação, porém, não é categórica. A regra de apagamento do /d/ é variável e se aplica somente a formas de gerúndio. Esses fatos levam ao desafio de interpretar o processo ou como regra lexical ou como poslexical. Fundamentados nos pressupostos da Fonologia Lexical, defendemos que se trata de regra lexical. Na análise variacionista do fenômeno, analisamos 76 amostras de fala constituídas a partir do controle das variáveis sociais sexo/ gênero, idade e escolaridade. Constatamos que homens jovens e com poucos anos de escolaridade são os que mais aplicam o apagamento de /d/ nas formas de gerúndio, o que nos permite concluir, com base em hipóteses clássicas da atuação de variáveis sociais, que tal fenômeno é estigmatizado na comunidade de fala estudada.

Estudo acústico das vogais do português brasileiro

In the area of Phonetics, current studies are mainly geared toward acoustic analysis of the speech. The technology of personal computers and available software made these analyses easier to be carried out. The following work used the software called PRAAT. Besides showing how it helps the researcher, the aim of this work is to bring new data for future consultation in this field, allowing comparisons and discussions about this subject. At FONAC, a place where a Project of Departmental Traineeship is run, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Luiz Carlos Cagliari and aimed at training on Acoustic Phonetics for undergraduates and graduates, there is a good quality recording, in which a speaker of the paulista dialect reads an excerpt of Michael Ende and Annegert Fuchshuber’s book named ‘The Dream-eater’ twice. The data obtained through it were analyzed directly or by statistic procedures. Tables and charts, created from these data, helped to visualize the similarities and differences between the vowels allowing an easier comprehension of the articulatory phenomenon. With the formants, specifically, prototypical values for the vowels of Portuguese and the dialect in study were obtained

Vozeamento na pronúncia de uma língua estrangeira: descrição de desvios comuns e como eles afetam o aprendizado do inglês

This paper analyzes voicing occurrences on the coda of Portuguese and English words pronounced by Brazilian speakers. The aim of this kind of analysis is to describe how voicing occurrences affect the realization and perception of foreign words. It was noted that there is a recurrence on the use of unvoiced coda in Portuguese, which was assumed to happen also in English when Brazilian Portuguese speakers uses it as a second language. The recordings were analyzed through Praat, software that generates waveforms and spectrograms, allowing segments to be divided and phonetically transcribed. The analysis proved the assumption to be true, concluding that speakers who had their speeches recorded produced unvoiced codas in fact. Conclusions concerning this take into consideration that, considering how minimal pairs in English can be produced based on coda voicing, there is a possible communication difficulty Brazilians may face due to this fact. But it goes by unnoticed, because this process sounds so natural it hardly is taken as a problem source

A nasalidade vocálica em português e em espanhol

Pós-graduação em Linguística e Língua Portuguesa - FCLAR

Estudo acústico da fala de Ibiraci-MG

The present monograph studies the speech of the people from Ibiraci, MG. It is a phonetic study which collects speech data by recordings. It has been recorded the speech of eight informants with the age between 20 and 85 years old. The phonetic objective is to transcribe the recordings for acoustic analysis with Praat program, considering aspects such as duration and intonation. The present monograph represents a contribution for the linguistic phonetic description of a Brazilian Portuguese variety. In Brazil, linguistic studies have always been considered the speech of people from big and capital cities. There are a great deal of data related to those cities, but only a few data collection for the other cities and communities

A presença de palavras de origem inglesa nos dicionários de português brasileiro: questões de identificação cultural

Este trabalho tem como objetivo observar a presença de palavras de origem inglesa em dicionários do Português Brasileiro relacionando este fato com a atual identificação do brasileiro com a cultura norteamericana – como consequência da importância dos EUA no cenário mundial nas últimas décadas. Neste estudo, notou-se que as palavras estrangeiras passam por um período de observação pelos lexicógrafos antes de serem finalmente inseridas em importantes obras de referência da língua portuguesa. Observou-se também que, quando inseridas nos dicionários, as palavras inglesas são encontradas em diferentes tipos de verbetes: alguns trazem transcrição fonética, por exemplo, outros não. Além disso, muitos verbetes não indicam se a palavra ainda pode ser considerada “estrangeira” à língua portuguesa ou se já se encontra aportuguesada. Dessa forma, podemos concluir que não há um padrão de entrada para palavras estrangeiras em dicionários do Português Brasileiro e que vem sendo uma tarefa difícil para os lexicógrafos encontrar um modelo de verbete que melhor atenda as necessidades das pessoas. Por fim, esta pesquisa comprovou que fatores extralinguísticos e culturais são importantes para que se decida se uma palavra estrangeira deve ou não estar presente em um dicionário do Português Brasileiro.

Línguas de ritmo silábico

One of the most controversial issues in the history of Phonetics is the discussion about the typology of speech rhythm. Out of the Greek and Latin tradition on poetry versification, the notion of rhythm has been misunderstood as speech rate. In the early years of the 20th century, a dichotomy merged classifying the speech rhythm into stress-timed and syllable-timed languages, inspired by the old theory of poetic versification. Following the same old pattern, later on, a third type of language were proposed: the moraic languages, initially attributed only to Japanese. With the facilities to carry on acoustic research, in the second half of the 20th century, the typology of language rhythm came to a dead end. Different types of language were set out. This paper discusses these ideas, showing a great misunderstanding among researchers in relation to the characterization of a syllable-timed language. The notion of mora is revisited and its role in the study of speech rhythm is better defined.