O comportamento da palatalização das fricativas alveolares [s] e [z] em coda silábica medial no português brasileiro falado na comunidade de Santa Cruz da Baixa Verde

Abstract

This work analyzes the behavior of the palatalization of alveolar fricatives [s] and [z] in medial syllabic coda in brazilian portuguese spoken in the community of Santa Cruz da Baixa Verde - PE, under the theoretical-methodological panoramas of the Theory of Labovian Variation. The alternative forms analyzed in relation to the behavior of palatalization of alveolar fricatives include: unvoiced alveolar fricative [s], voiced alveolar fricative [z], unvoiced alveopalatal fricative [ʃ] and voiced alveopalatal fricative [ʒ]. This research has as main objective to describe the structural and social factors that condition the variation under study and is revealed important because until now there has been no research on the linguistic phenomenon in question in that speech community. The linguistic factors analyzed were the preceding context and the following context. The corpus used was extracted from interviews with informants from the city studied and was divided according to the groups of extralinguistic factors: age, sex and level of education. Linguistic variables that can influence the variation are also analyzed. The results showed that among the [s] and [ʃ] variants, the last one was more performed, mainly in front of [t], as it proved to be a factor favoring the palatalization phenomenon in the speech community. Between [z] and [ʒ], the first presented the most cases, that is, the non-palatalized variant predominated