Entoação e sentidos: análise fonético-fonológica dos padrões entoacionais do português brasileiro e do inglês norte-americano no filme Shrek (2001)

Tomando como corpus o desenho animado Shrek, produção norte-americana de 2001, Maíra Sueco Maegava Córdula estuda o papel da entoação nas falas em duas línguas - o Português do Brasil e o Inglês dos Estados Unidos. O estudo da entoação se baseia na verificação de que os sentidos dos enunciados podem ser distintos utilizando-se as mesmas palavras, bastando para isso apenas mudar o tom em que elas são proferidas. O comentário: Não foi o que o sujeito falou, mas como ele falou ilustra a ideia. A Linguística estuda esse como, ou a entoação, por meio da Prosódia. Dessa forma, a obra tem como fim analisar a variação melódica da fala em línguas naturais e seus aspectos sintáticos, semânticos e pragmáticos. A autora destaca que a entoação em línguas naturais, como o Português Brasileiro, tem um papel relevante para a formação dos sentidos dos enunciados, principalmente no que se refere à sua função sintática. Uma das hipóteses centrais da pesquisa é a de que padrões distintos de entoações podem expressar significações semelhantes em diferentes línguas. A escolha de um desenho animado, cuja fala é artificial, facilitou a pesquisa, na medida em que em um ambiente de fala natural, o pesquisador não tem acesso a conhecimentos prévios entre os informantes. Além disso, o objeto do estudo tornou possível a comparação linguística, já que os dubladores, tanto na versão original quanto na dublada em outra língua, só podem recorrer à voz como instrumento expressivo. A isso se soma o fato de que em produções artísticas desse tipo são bem marcadas suas funções emotiva e expressiva, pois têm como objetivo o entretenimento associado à emoção e, dessa forma, os aspectos semânticos e pragmáticos dos padrões de entoação podem ser identificados de forma clara

As vogais médias pretônicas na variedade do interior paulista

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

Pausas e constituintes prosódicos na interpretação de atores

Pós-graduação em Fonoaudiologia - FFC

Cantar em português: um estudo sobre a abordagem articulatória como recurso para a prática do canto

Pós-graduação em Música - IA

Avaliação clínica, videolaringoscópica e vocal perceptivo-auditiva e acústica de professores disfônicos

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Characteristics of fricatives consonants orthography in Brazilian children

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

Pausas na interpretação teatral: delimitação de constituintes prosódicos

We intend to observe the function of a linguistic resource – the pause – in theatrical interpretation. Connected to the field of speech therapy, we search for theoretical support in the Linguistics field, mainly in prosodic phonology – specifically, we highlight intonational phrase and phonological utterance, prosodic constituents –, proposing a dialogue between these fields, regarding the work with actors. In speech therapy literature, the work with actors focuses, centrally, in organic issues involved in the vocal process, such as “misuse” or “voice abuse”. To a smaller extent, we find, in this literature, researches that emphasize issues regarding interpretation and expressive resources, besides a few emphasizing the importance of linguistic resources in interpretation. Differently, in linguistics literature, the pause is approached, to a larger extent, from the phonetic perspective, related to several language levels. In this research, we analyzed audio recordings of four actors from a same theatrical group, acting the theatrical text Brutas flores, focused on these aims: (1) detect the place where pauses happen in the interpretation of a single text by four actors; (2) survey physical characteristics of length of these pauses; (3) check to what extent the length of a pause is related to the place where it happens, regarding the prosodic limits of intonational phrases (I) and phonological utterance (U). We could observe that, although the interpretation is characterized by the subjectivity of the actor, the interpretation is constructed based in the possibilities offered by the prosodic organization of the text itself, being more or less flexible.We were also able to confirm, by considering the length of VVs units containing pauses, the prosodic hierarchy proposed by Nespor & Vogel, once the length of these units in U's limits was significantly higher than the length in I's limits. Thus, our results reinforce the premise that a linguistic structure overlaps the subjectivity of the actor, i. e., the premise that the strength of linguistic structure organization acts on the possible individual operation/style.

Comparação entre medidas acústicas de vogais em provas de repetição e conversa espontânea

The aim of this study is to compare acoustic measures (frequency, duration and intensity) of the vowels /i, a, u/ in repetition and spontaneous tasks. Recordings of words produced by ten children with typical language development in both controlled and spontaneous tasks were selected from a database. The vowels were selected and edited into individual files in the software PRAAT. Acoustic measures related to formant frequency (F1 and F2), intensity and duration of vowels in both contexts were extracted. The values obtained were compared by means of T Tests. In general, the acoustic analysis showed no differences between the two contexts of speech production. The few differences found can be explained by the presence of focus and/or hesitation phenomena during the speech productions. It is possible to use data from spontaneous context to analyze the vowels acoustically, provided that both the phonetic context of the vowel occurrence and the syllable stress of the vocalic segment are considered.

Escolhas de letras nas primeiras escritas infantis: função e unidade no discurso

The article deals, initially, from a theoretical point of view, the concept of function in the perspective of Vygotsky (2001), and functional equivalence from the point of view of Smith (1989) and articulates them with the letter funcion in the construction of words in discursive statements. Taking as reference these concepts, it was analysed writings of a student in early literacy at a school in a countryside city in the state of São Paulo, in a situation of writing letters of personal correspondence, whose data were collected in 2009 in order to determine which letters are chosen by the student and why they are chosen to record the speech. The concept of function in Vygotsky and the functional equivalence of Smith (1989) used for the analysis of corpus, revealed that the student’s decisions are characterized by diversity sources and criteria, and rely mainly on the basis that a letter can have the constitution of the word, in the process of enunciation, regardless of their phonetic correspondence. The letter, used as a basis, would lose its status as strictly technical element to achieve the status of a unit of sense since is a constituent part of discourse.

A escrita de /an/ por pré escolares: pistas acústico-auditivas

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

As vogais na diacronia do português: uma interpretação fonológica de três momentos da história da língua

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A influência da língua inglesa na formação de nomes comerciais: questões de identidade linguística e cultural

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

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