Epêntese vocálica em encontros consonantais mediais por falantes porto-alegrenses em inglês como língua estrangeira

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Pereyron, Letícia
• 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; INGLÊS - ENSINO; FONOLOGIA; AQUISIÇÃO DA SEGUNDA LÍNGUA; EPÊNTESE
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/4103

This work aims at describing and analysing the insertion of an epenthetic vowel into medial clusters by Brazilian speakers of English as a foreign language (EFL). Our research, as well as our hypotheses, were motivated by the vowel epenthesis study in the South of Brazil (COLLISCHONN, 2002). Our purpose is to investigate whether the influencing factors of the epenthesis rule in EFL are the same responsible factors for the application of the rule in Southern Portuguese. The study was accomplished under the perspective of Linguistic Variation Theory, Labovian model. The corpus of the study is composed of 16 speakers from Porto Alegre, RS, students of EFL: 8 men and 8 women, ranging from low to a high proficiency level, and ages varying from 15 to 57. The data were colected by digital recording of interviews, in which the participant was asked to read two intruments: a list of isolated words and a list of sentences. The data analysis was conducted in two ways, auditorily and acoustically, and their statistical examination was carried out by VARBRUL 2S. The linguistic variables selected as statistically relevant were, in both analyses, Stray Consonant, Following Context, Stray Consonant Voicing, Following Context Voicing, and Type of Cluster. The social variables selected as statistically relevant were, in the acoustic examination, Age and Sex; in the auditory analysis, Age and Level of Proficiency.