Aspectos da fonologia da língua Sanumá (Yanomami)

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Autuori, Joana Dworecka
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Roraima; Brasil; PRPPG - Pró-reitoria de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação; PPGL - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras; UFRR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Fonologia; Língua Sanumá; Família liguística Yanomami; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.ufrr.br:8080/jspui/handle/prefix/529

This dissertation is an analysis of aspects of the phonology of the language Sanuma spoken in Brazil. The language belongs to the linguistic family Yanomami, an isolated family, spoken on the border of Brazil and Venezuela. In Brazil, about 19,000 Yanomami are concentrated in Roraima and Amazonas. Based on data collected firsthand with native speakers of the language Sanumá, this research presents a phonetic description, based on articulatory phonetics and acoustic phonetics. Regarding phonology analyzes the contexts of occurrence of allophones of vowel and consonant phonemes, some phonological processes are analyzed upon the nonlinear theory of Feature Geometry (Clements and Hume, 1995). The syllable is analyzed based on the theory CV (Clements and Keyser, 1983).