A organização prosódica do yaathe, a língua do povo fulni-ô

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Fábia Pereira da
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufal.br/handle/riufal/2138
• topic: Linguas indigenas - Brasil; Índios da América do Sul - Brasil - Línguas; Análise prosódica (Linguística); Indian languages - Brazil; Indians of South America - Brazil - Languages; Prosodic analysis (Linguistics); CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA

This thesis presents an analysis of the prosodic hierarchy in Yaathe, a Brazilian indigenous language, aiming at defining and delimiting its prosodic units. The analysis is based on a previously proposed theoretical approach. While the phonological word is discussed in much more details here, the other units were also described and analyzed, resulting in a full description of prosodic organization of the language language. The primary data used for analysis and formulation of hypotheses come from the database Brazilian Indigenous Language Documentation Project Yaathe (Fulni-ô). These data were collected between 2011 and 2013, respecting all standards proposed by international databases. As a theoretical support, we lean on Prosodical Phonology, proposed by Nespor and Vogel (1986), which is a theory of organization of the utterance into phonological units, hierarchically arranged. This model conceives speech as represented by a system in which each constituent of the hierarchy acts as context to application of rules and specific phonological processes. The work is organized in four sections: section 1, in which we present an outline of the phonology and grammar of the language, considering the pre-existing works, mainly Costa (1999), Cabral (2009) and Silva (2011); section 2, in which we delimit the prosodic constituent metrical foot in order to define the accent on Yaathe, describing how syllabic units are arranged to form metrical feet, watching the accentual prominence in the lexicon. We analyze the verb and name classes, once the other language words, generally behave in prosodic terms, sometimes as verbs or as names; section 3, in which we specifically define the phonological word in that language, noting some criteria that can allow the definition of phonological word in one language, specifically pause, accent and phonological processes; and section 4, in which we treat the units above the phonological word in terms of prosodical hierarchy: the phonological phrase, the intonation phrase and phonological utterance, describing some aspects of these units. To define the phonological phrase mostly used the break (whether or not), the accent and phonological processes such as compensatory stretching, melting and falling vowels vowels. To define the phonological phrase, we used the criteria break (whether or not), accent and phonological processes such as compensatory lengthening, merge and drop of vowels. At first, we delimited syntactic phrase unit. For that, we analyzed the following phrases: noun phrase, verb phrase and postpositional phrase. We take as the basis for our analysis of speech already defined in previous work (Costa, 1999) and applied the selected criteria to establish the boundaries of a phonological word in the language. Again, the two largest classes, noun and verb, stood out deserving a more detailed description, since its constituency in grammatical terms, it is more complex than the others, and appear to be the classes that allow themselves to be set more clearly. The main results were the definition of the stress pattern, the separation of elements that were considered part of a grammatical word into independent phonological word, organizational aspects of words in phonological phrases and some evidence of the existence of higher-level units, the phrase intonation and phonological utterance. Theoretically and methodologically, the investigation also allows us to make some reflections that are presented in the final considerations.