A variação do fonema fricativo alveolar // na língua falada na cidade de Orocó

Abstract

This work presents a quantitative research within theoretical and methodological hypotheses of Sociolinguistics (2008 [1972]), in order to show significant data on the discourse of residents of Orocó city. We observed linguistic variation presents in the speech of orocoenses from the selection of the phenomenon of aspiration voiceless fricative alveolar dental phoneme //, which caught our attention due to the great occurrence present in the transcription of the data. The research is based, more specifically, on Theory of Linguistic Variation, by Labov (2008 [1972]), whose study proposal is to observe relationship between the language we speak and the society we live in. This relationship is mutual and intensifies language heterogeneity, which in turn is already internal and natural to the language system. For this study, we contextualize the phenomenon analyzed, the variant [], by means studies on Phonetics and Phonology, which in turn are the studies of speech production. Is stablished a methodology work through the elaboration of a roadmap for research realization in which social and linguistic data, it were collected through interviews, of the transcription of collected data, of the codification and of the running of data through the GoldVarbX computer program. Therefore, we note in the question speech community there is presence of the phenomenon of aspiration [] of fricative //. Among the variables analyzed, those had a higher percentage of influence were: proceeding context, previous context and gender, in this order respectively. However, we consider the inhabitants Orocó-PE city, through our analysis, residents tend to perform little the phenomenon of aspiration.