VOCALIZATION OF THE LATERAL CONSONANT IN SYLLABLE CODA IN A VARIETY OF BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE: A REAL TIME SOCIOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS

Authors

  • Elisa Battisti UFRGS
  • Viviane Tebaldi Moras UFRGS

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v21i40.33376

Keywords:

Language variation, Brazilian Portuguese, Vocalization of the lateral consonant in syllable coda, Real-time analysis

Abstract

The article brings the results of a real-time, variable rule analysis (LABOV, 1972, 1994) of the vocalization of the lateral consonant /l/ in syllable coda (canal~cana[w] ‘channel’, Brasil~Brasi[w] ‘Brazil’) in Brazilian Portuguese in the speech of Flores da Cunha (RS). It shows that from 1990 to 2008-2009 the rule progressed along with social and economic changes verified in that small city, founded in the end of the XIX century by Italian immigrants. Young people favoured the application of the rule, women completed the acquisition of the vocalized form.  The tendency to vocalize grew bigger in the presence of high consonants and back vowels, besides labial consonants, in the following phonological context. The stressed syllable ceased to have conditioning effect. The total proportion of rule application went from 12% in 1990 to 77% in 2008-2009. The big increase in the proportion of rule application accompanied the growth of the urban population and of the economic activities carried on in the urban area. This reduced the speaking of Italian dialects and their contact with Portuguese, which could have restrained vocalization.

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Author Biographies

Elisa Battisti, UFRGS

Possui licenciatura Plena em Letras Português Inglês pela UCS (1987), mestrado em Letras pela UFRGS (1993) e doutorado em Linguística e Letras pela PUCRS (1997). É Professora Adjunta do Instituto de Letras da UFRGS, Departamento de Linguística, Filologia e Teoria Literária. Atua nas Linhas 'Fonologia e Morfologia' e 'Sociolinguística' do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras, como orientadora de mestrado e doutorado, e nas disciplinas de Linguística na Graduação em Letras. É membro dos grupos de pesquisa Aspectos Fonológicos do Português Brasileiro-IV (PUCRS), Círculo Linguístico: Fonologia e Morfologia (UFRGS), Descrição Sócio-Histórica das Vogais do Português do Brasil (UFMG), Estudos de Teoria Fonológica (PUCRS). É pesquisadora do CNPq.

Viviane Tebaldi Moras, UFRGS

Graduanda em Letras - Licenciatura (Português e Literaturas) na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. É bolsista de Iniciação Científica PIBIC/CNPq no plano de trabalho intitulado "O contraste capital-interior: padrões de variação linguística", vinculado à área de Linguística, com ênfase em Fonologia e Sociolinguística Variacionista.

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Published

2016-07-01

How to Cite

Battisti, E., & Moras, V. T. (2016). VOCALIZATION OF THE LATERAL CONSONANT IN SYLLABLE CODA IN A VARIETY OF BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE: A REAL TIME SOCIOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS. Gragoatá, 21(40). https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v21i40.33376

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 40 (2016): LANGUAGE STUDIES

Section

Language Articles

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