French front rounded vowels by speakers of Brazilian Portuguese

• Autor(a) principal: Alcântara, Cíntia da Costa
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Matzenauer, Carmen Lúcia B., Carniato, Miriam C., Azevedo, Roberta Quintanilha
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Alfa (São José do Rio Preto. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/alfa/article/view/12798
• topic: aquisição de vogais do francês; aquisição de LE; Teoria da Otimidade Estocástica; acquisition French front rounded vowels; foreign language acquisition; Stochastic Optimality Theory

French and Portuguese vowel systems differ in the presence of front rounded vowels in the French phonology - / y /, / ø /, / oe / -, which means that the system has ten vowels, while Portuguese phonology has seven vowel segments. The focus of the present study is the process of acquisition of French front rounded vowels by native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese (BP). With the support of the Stochastic Optimality Theory (StOT) and with the assumption that the acquisition of a foreign language involves mainly the organization of a new grammar, this study, based on an empirical basis taken from Alcântara (1998), aims to describe and formalize the emergence of vowels / y /, / ø /, / oe / in the phonology of French as a foreign language for native speakers of BP, seeking explanations on marked and faithfulness constraints, which integrate the OT, for the different stages that characterize the learning process of the L2 vowel system.