The decreasing diphthong in the Portuguese spoken by the quilombo community of Alto Alegre

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Gredson dos
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Almeida, Jailma da Guarda
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: letrônica
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/letronica/article/view/25073
• topic: Decreasing diphthong; Sociolinguistics analysis; Portuguese Afro-Brazilian.; Ditongo decrescente; Análise Sociolinguística; Português Afro-Brasileiro; Ditongo decrescente; Análise Sociolinguística; Português Afro-Brasileiro

It is sociolinguistic study (Labov , 2008 [1972]), which investigated the variable realization of decreasing diphthong <EI>, the Portuguese spoken by the quilombo community of Alto Alegre, in the municipality of Presidente Tancredo Neves (to 263 km from Salvador). The decreasing <EI> diphthong, variable under study can be performed in its default form or present the reduced form, obliterating the glide. The corpus for the study consisted of 12 sociolinguistic interviews conducted with community natural speakers, lasting approximately 60 minutes each, made with 6 men and 6 women, divided into three age groups (I: 20 to 40 years; II: 41 to 60 years; III: over 60). the first 50 occurrences of the diphthong were studied <EI>, a total sample of 600 data. The data were submitted to statistical analysis by computational GOLDVARB X program, following the principles set in Guy and Zilles (2007). The independent variables considered important by the program either for the standard realization of the diphthong as to monophthongization were: position which is the variant, syllable stress, term extension, characteristic of the subsequent consonant, the following consonant sound, the morphological class, and age of the informant.