Análise Prosódica de segmentações não-convecionais de palavras em textos do sexto ano do EF

This paper analyzes unconventional segmentation of word found in texts of the sixth grade of Elementary School. Through quantitative and qualitative analysis, we describe the prosodic characteristics that may be motivated the hyper and hippossegmentation of words found in 27,4% of 606 investigated texts. We identified a tendency toward a more text with hippossegmentation than hypersegmentation, characteristic similar to what is reported about children’s text. Taking into account the theoretical framework of Prosodic Phonology, we argue about the relevance of prosodic word and clitic group in the description of the regularities observed in data of unconventional segmentation of word. We note that (i) in cases of hipposegmentation, it predominates the hollow of a clitic followed by a phonological word, (ii) in cases of hypersegmentation, it predominates a segmentation of a prosodic word into a clitic group. We present evidences to be the spelling of clitic elements a challenge to students analyzed. By investigating in the grammatical class that owned the clitics spelled unconventionally, we verified that they are prepositions (“em, de, com”) and pronouns (“me, lhe, lo”), a characteristic that particularize these data in relation to data from students in the early stage of language acquisition.

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.

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

A epêntese vocálica no português brasileiro: regra lexical ou pós-lexical?

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

Sobre o ritmo do português brasileiro: evidências de um padrão acentual

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

Adaptação fonológica de nomes próprios de origem estrangeira: comparação entre português arcaico e português brasileiro

This paper aims to discuss the phonological adaptation of proper nouns of foreign origin in two moments of the language temporal continuum: Archaic and Brazilian Portuguese.

Formação de nomes deverbais nas Cantigas de Santa Maria

This research aims to present and discuss three morphophonological processes – juxtaposition, allomorphy of the verbal thematic vowel and gemination of similar vowels – which occurs in word formation involving the suffixes -çon and -mento in a corpus composed of 420 Cantigas de Santa Maria. The cases analyzed in this study occurred with nouns from verbs of the first, second and third conjugations. Through the analysis of these processes we conclude that the suffix -çon triggers more morphophonological processes than the suffix -mento. However, although the processes are very productive, we note that most of the names were formed from the juxtaposition of the suffixes - especially in nouns formed with -mento – which shows a tendency to regularity in the word formation with these suffixes.

Inovação científica em estudos medievais: descobrindo os sons do português arcaico

In the context of the confrontation between the several existing possibilities of comprehension of the term “innovation” in the Linguistic fields, the main goal of this paper is to explore the comprehension of this term considering the adoption of new methodologies, based on the analysis of a specific case, of the Research Group Phonology of Portuguese: Archaic and Brazilian periods, which investigates the phonology of a past period of the language from which there are no more alive native speakers.

Resenha/Review Contemporary phonology in Brazil

Resenha da obra Contemporary phonology in Brazil, editado por Leda Bisol e Cláudia Regina Brescancini e publicada pela Cambridge Scholars Publising, 2008.

Sândi: considerações sobre o status prosódico dos clíticos nas Cantigas de Santa Maria

This article intends to study sandhi phenomena in Archaic Portuguese (13th century), in order to obtain clues about the prosodic status of clitics. Analyzing the texts of the reminiscent religious medieval cantigas (420 Cantigas de Santa Maria, compiled by Alfonso X, the Wise) this study intends to determine the cliticization direction, in order to find clues to the formation of superior prosodic constituents, based on the consideration of the syntactic structure of the sentence and the direction of the syntactic cliticization.

As vogais postônicas do século XIII: um olhar sobre a escrita da época

This work aims to obtain a phonological description of unstressed word-final vowels of Medieval Portuguese (MP). The corpus of this research is comprised of Alfonso X’s Cantigas de Santa Maria, composed on the second half of the 13th century. This work maps all the graphemes that represent, in the corpus considered, the unstressed word-final vowels. From the analyses of writing and rhymes in Alfonso X’s Cantigas de Santa Maria, it was possible obtain some important information about the realization of the unstressed wordfinal vowels in MP.

Analise fonológica de nomes próprios de origem estrangeira e novas criações em português brasileiro

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