ANALYSIS OF THE PROCESS OF REGRESSIVE PALALIZATION IN MACEIÓ-AL CITY

• Autor(a) principal: Bezerra Falcão, Aline
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Giselle de Santana Lima Aguiar Vitório , Elyne
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Travessias Interativas
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufs.br/Travessias/article/view/17471
• topic: Sociolinguística Variacionista. palatalização regressiva. Alagoas.; Sociolinguistic Variationist. regressive palatalization. Alagoas.

This work aims to investigate the phonetic/phonological processes of regressive palatalization of alveolar stops produced in Brazilian Portuguese spoken in the Maceió-AL city from the perspective of Variationist Sociolinguistics (LABOV, 2008 [1972]), contrasting the linguistic data collected with internal variables (previous context, syllable position, target consonant, word size and nature of the trigger) and external (age, sex/gender, district and education), with the aim of identifying possible conditions for the use of the palatalized variant and analyzing whether the process of regressive palatalization reflects a stable variation or change in progress. In the treatment of the phonetic-phonological variant, the feature theory is used as a theoretical-methodological contribution (CLEMENTS; HUME, 1995). To carry out the research, the database of the Portuguese Project Alagoano – PORTAL and the computer program R, in its integrated environment platform RStudio, are used to perform the statistical analyses. The research seeks to analyze the processes of regressive palatalization in Maceió, considering that, in several regions of Brazil, this regressive context has been quite common in the speech communities of the South, Southeast, North and Northeast of Brazil (DA HORA 1990; BISOL, 1991; DUTRA, 2007, HENRIQUE; HORA, 2012; SOUZA NETO, 2014; CRISTOFÁRO SILVA, 2012; SOUZA, 2016) in words like “[dZ]ia” (day) and “[tS]ia” (aunt). In this study, it was possible to observe that the regressive palatalization in the speech community of Alagoas is in an apparent process of expansion, being favored by the young and more educated.