Phonetic groupings of the anterior middle vowel/e/in a prettonic position in the linguistic Atlas of Rondônia (ALiRo)

• Autor(a) principal: Razky, Abdelhak
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Teles, Iara Maria, Coimbra, Diego
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos de Estudos Linguísticos
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/cel/article/view/8654429
• topic: phonetic grouping; pretonic mid front vowel /e/; geossociolinguistics; ALiRO; Agrupamentos fonéticos; Vogais média pretônica /e/; Geossociolinguística; ALiRO.; Agrupaciones fonéticas; Vocales medias, pretónicas/e/; Geossociolinguística; ALiRO

Abstract: This paper deals with the analysis and cartography of the variation of the pretonic front vowel /e/ from the corpus of Linguistic Atlas of Rondônia – ALiRO. This work follows the theoretical-methodological orientation of the Pluridimensional and Relational Dialectology (RADTKE, THUN, 1996), Geosociolinguistics (RAZKY, 1998, 2004, 2010), Quantitative Sociolinguistic (GUY, ZILLER, 2007), and the grouping notion (RAZKY, 2013; RAZKY; GUEDES, 2015; RAZKY; COIMBRA; COSTA, 2017). Data from 62 informants distributed among 16 geographical points that compose ALiRO’s network were stratified according to the variables considered in ALiRO project, namely: age group (two informants aged 18 to 30 and two aged 50 to 65 years); sex (two men and two women); and locality (microregions and cities). In Porto Velho, capital, 8 informants were stratified according to sex (four men and four women), age group (four informants aged 18 to 30 and four informants aged 50 to 65) and schooling (four with high school degrees and four with university degrees). Three realizations of the pretonic front vowel /e/ were investigated, namely: lowering, raising and maintenance. The results show that the diagenerational factor influences the lowering and maintenance of the vowel /e/, since the lowering was recurrent in the speech of the older informants, while maintenance predominated in the speech of younger ones. The study also shows that there are four types of phonetic geographical groupings in Rondônia state, which corroborate the notion of grouping adopted in this research.