As vogais médias pretônicas na variedade do noroeste paulista: uma análise sociolinguística

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As vogais médias pretônicas na variedade do interior paulista

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Pausas e constituintes prosódicos na interpretação de atores

Pós-graduação em Fonoaudiologia - FFC

Da legitimidade de textos poéticos musicados como fonte para o estudo da prosódia de tempos passados do português: O exemplo das cantigas medievais galego-portuguesas

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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.

A aquisição do contraste /t/ e /k/ sob a ótica dinâmica

In this article, we present different interpretations to the phenomenon of velar fronting, found in the speech of children. This phenomenon is discussed under both of the following paradigms: the symbolic one – which considers the existence of segments as sources of categorical representations – and the dynamic one, which not only considers different representational units, but also provides an alternative conception of what may be taken as a representation. The analysis focuses on acoustic data produced by children of about three years of age under controlled conditions in a ludic context. The results indicate that the subjects have a covert contrast between alveolars and velars that may be interpreted in light of at least three dynamic hypotheses.

O espraiamento da nasalização do português do Brasil

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

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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

Língua wauja (arawak): uma descrição fonológica e morfossintática

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Vogais mediais pretônicas no noroeste paulista: o papel das variáveis sociais no alçamento vocálico

In this paper, we investigate to which extent social variables act on the medial vowel raising phenomenon in the Portuguese variety spoken in São José do Rio Preto, a city in the countryside of São Paulo State. Based on the theoretical-methodological model of Sociolinguistics Variacionist, we analyse speech samples from this city, the Iboruna database. The results show that the vowel raising applies: (i) for both men and women; (ii) in all age groups and, (iii) in all levels of formal education. Taking into consideration the results of analysis of social and linguistic variables selected by the program GoldVarb, we find evidences that vowel raising phenomenon is not sensitive to social pressures in the speech community studied, which allows us to affirm that it is not a phenomenon socially stigmatized and the variation in its implementation is more strongly subject to linguistic variables.

avaliação de proficiência

In this study we discuss the role of pronunciation in language testing and investigate two features of pronunciation of eight candidates of the Test of Oral Proficiency in English (TEPOLI) along four bands of the test scale. Deviations in vowel segments and in syllable structure are analyzed. The results point to the need for a global assessment of the candidates’ phonological systems

Reflexõs sobre a linguagem do ambiente chat no Teletandem sob a perspectiva da natureza heterogênea da escrita

This paper aims at discussing the characteristics of computer mediated language within a foreign language teaching and learning environment enabled by the use of synchronic writing resources – chat. The present research is based on (i) theoretical principles about the use of technologies and the teaching-learning of foreign languages in the scope of the Teletandem Brazil Project: Foreign languages for all – Projeto Teletandem Brasil: línguas estrangeiras para todos (TELLES, 2005); (ii) studies on the characteristics of the language within chat interactions; (iii) different theoretical perspectives on the relationship between spoken and written language, emphasizing the constitutive heterogeneity of writing perspective (CORRÊA, 1997, 1998, 2001); and (iv) some relevant concepts related to Prosodic Phonology field (NESPOR; VOGEL, 1986). Is being taken as research data, the written production of a Brazilian student (finishing a Licentiate in Literature) interacting with an American student (in Religious Studies) through Windows Live Messenger. The data were collected during a five-month period, during which the participants interacted through chat, totalizing 12 interactions in English and in Portuguese. During the analysis, a particular attention was given to the messages’ fragmentation, the use (or not) of punctuation signs and abbreviations within the Brazilian participant’s production, in order to discuss the representations she built of her writing, her interlocutor, herself and on the teaching-learning process of a foreign language.