Fala [ø] e escreve [ø]: variação do rótico em posição de coda na escrita escolar de Uberaba/MG

Abstract

This article aims mainly to analyze a variable phonetical and phonological process, which is the erasing or keeping of the /R/ phoneme. Therefore, the investigation is based on the influence of the speaking on writing of elementary school students from Uberaba/MG. In other words, we ascertain if the process described above is as present on writings as it is on speaking of these students, trying to evidence how orality can influence a written text. To do that, 70 writings from the students were analyzed, and two important factors were taken into consideration: (a) keeping or erasing of /R/ in verbs and (b) extension of the word: number of syllables. 420 words were found and the keeping of /R/ had a very lower frequency, with 29,05% of the total. On the other hand, the erasing of /R/ presented 70,95% of occurrence. Thus, we observed that the knowledge of linguistic variation is extremely important for the process of language teaching. Furthermore, the importance of articles and researches with writing texts as this one is evident, because similar works of this process were all based on spoken corpus, which makes this article innovative. So, we conclude that the influence of speaking on writing is apparent, once the analyzed process is so frequent on students speaking and they reflect that on their writings, because the knowledge of the relation between speaking and writing is not clear.