Estudo da nasalidade na cidade de fortaleza, numa perspectiva perceptual e fonética

Abstract

This study had the objective to analyse the nasality of the subjects who were born in the city of Fortaleza, in a phonetic and perceptual perspective. A qualitative and quantitative transversal research, in which 40 subjects who were born in Fortaleza. 20 who lived in the community of Dendê and 20 university teachers. Their ages varied between 20 and 40 years old. A great part of the subjects in the research presented nasal resonance. The assimilation of the nasality was proven by the nasalization of the tonic vowels, while there was a great variation of the nasalization of the pretonic vowels, therefore characterizing a linguistic variation in the city of Fortaleza. Therefore, we can consider that the presence of nasality in the vowels is related to the perception of the nasal resonance in both groups.