A redução de proparoxítonos na fala do sul do Brasil

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Chaves, Raquel Gomes
• Orientador(a): Brescancini, Cláudia Regina
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: LINGUÍSTICA; SOCIOLINGUÍSTICA; DIALETOLOGIA; FONOLOGIA; FONÉTICA; VARIAÇÃO (LINGUÍSTICA)
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/4224

The current study takes as its purpose the description and analysis of the incidence of syncope (ó. cu. los – ó. clus; árvore - árve, sábado – sádo) and apocope (véspera –vésper; mínimo – míni) processes in proparoxytone vocables. The approached suppression phenomena are mentioned as conservative processes, inasmuch as they manifest themselves since the Latin language and they are present in Portuguese until nowadays. Most research focused on the analysis of the words stressed on the antepenultimate syllable in Brazilian Portuguese (CAIXETA, 1989; AMARAL, 1999; XIMENES, 2005; SILVA, 2006; LIMA, 2008; RAMOS, 2009) devoted mainly to the study of the action of syncope phenomenon, insofar as the incidence of the process on the referred accentual class has been reported since the Classical Latin. However, the manifestation of apocope in proparoxytone has been mentioned in a series of studies (CAIXETA, 1989; FERNANDES, 2007; ARAÚJO et al., 2008). This research, reasoned on the Labovian theoretical-methodological model of Variation Theory (LABOV, 1972, 1994), commits to a perceptual analysis of deletion phenomena, based on the investigation of 102 interviews granted by VARSUL database. The informants that constitute the sample present low education level and are from the Southern Region of Brazil – Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina. As the results suggest, the manifestation of the processes in proparoxytone vocables is essentially regulated by linguistic conditioners. Social factors, delimited as possible influencers of the processes, were not pointed as relevant to the suppression phenomena application. Furthermore, the incidence of the two processes obeyed the universal principles and the specific conditions of the Portuguese language: the syncope was only observed when the resyllabification process, incited by deletion, respected the phonological system of language (ó. cu. los – ó. clus) and the syllabic apocope, registered in greater numbers than the vocalic apocope, denoted that the phonological system was preserved even with the syllable elision, whereas the deletion does not incite a resyllabification process.