A elisão da vogal média /o/ em Porto Alegre-RS e Curitiba-PR

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Alencastro, Ana Paula Mello
• 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 APLICADA; PORTUGUÊS - FONOLOGIA; FONÉTICA; SOCIOLINGUÍSTICA; PORTUGUÊS - MORFOLOGIA; VARIAÇÃO (LINGUÍSTICA)
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/4225

This work aims at studying the elision rule involving the vowel /o/ in V-V sequences, when the first vowel is at a final word stressless position and the second vowel, of a different quality, is at the beginning of the following word. The corpus of the study is consisted of interviews with speakers from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, and Curitiba, Paraná, taken from VARSUL Bank Data. The data were submitted to VARBRUL 2S statistical analysis. Describing the process of the vowel /o/ elision under the perspective of Linguistic Variation Theory, Labovian model, while estalishing conditioning linguistic and social factors and concluding the description of the close-mid vowels in the South of Brazil are the aims of this research. The elision of /o/ vowel is the dependent variable and this embraces three variants: elision, diphthongization, and hiatuses. The variant elision was not the one of highest application, but diphtongization, in both regions analyzed. The linguistic variables selected as statistically relevant were Morphosyntactic Classification of Position 1, Type of lexical item in Position 1, Number of syllables in Position 1, Morphosyntactic Classification of Position 2, Type of lexical item in Position 2, Number of syllables in Position 2, and prosodic constituents. The only social variable selected as statiscally relevant was Region.