A pronúncia das vogais médias pretônicas em Serra Talhada – Pernambuco

Abstract

The present work entitled The pronunciation of the pre-vowel middle vowels in Serra Talhada-Pernambuco, arose due to the lack of studies concerning this subject in the city of Serra Talhada. In this way, it intends to characterize the Serra-talhadense dialect within the Brazilian linguistic scenario. The main objective of this work is to record the linguistic variation of the region with emphasis on the vowels performed in the pretextual position, / e/ and / o /, from the perspective of the Theory of Variation, based on the speech of 12 informants (six females and six males) varying the age group between 15 and 25 years, residents and natural of the municipality of Serra Talhada, Pernambuco. The corpus used in the study comprised 20 words that presented the context of the research (words with previous and posterior average vowels in a pre-position). From these words, 240 occurrences of the variants [ɛ,e, i, ͻ,o] were verified. The results obtained showed that the medium-low vowels [ɛ,ͻ] are the most active, in the Serra-talhadense community.