Analysis of devoicing and voicing of oclusive and fricative consonants in Portuguese in contact with German

• Autor(a) principal: Schneiders, Michele
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Busse, Sanimar
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Travessias (Cascavel. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/travessias/article/view/30541
• topic: Dessonorização; Sonorização; Dialetologia Pluridimensional e Relacional; Variação; Devoicing; voicing; Pluridimensional and Relational Dialectology; variation

The subject of this article is the variation of devoicing and devoicing of occlusive and fricative consonants in Portuguese in contact with German, with the general objective of the research being to analyze the phenomenon of devoicing and devoicing of occlusive consonants and fricatives in Portuguese in contact with German in bilingual speakers from three locations in the Far West of Santa Catarina based on data collected by the Atlas das Línguas em Contato na Fronteira (ALCF), a research project linked to the Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul (UFFS) Campus Chapecó (SC). The analysis is based on the following research question: which extralinguistic contexts act as conditioners for the realization of the variation of sonorization and devoicing of occlusive and fricative consonants in Portuguese in contact with German? The theoretical and methodological basis of Pluridimensional and Relational Dialectology guides the analysis (RADTKE; THUN, 1996; THUN, 1998; 2005; 2010), which describes language from different dimensions. In this study, we investigated the variation through the diatopic, diastratic and diagenerational dimensions. As a result, the data reveal that both devoicing and voicing variations occur in the speech of bilinguals, with age and low education being important factors in conditioning the phenomena.