A síncope das proparoxítonas no Atlas Prévio dos Falares Baianos: um olhar variacionista

Abstract

Under the Variationist Sociolinguistics point of view, this study investigates the data of the prior Atlas of the way people from Bahia-Brazil (Bahians) talk, the syncope of the antepenultimate stressed words, which is a process that consists in reducing the words phonic body by the loss of one or more segments in post tonic syllable, enabling antepenultimate stressed lexical items become a paroxytone, as clavícula > clavica. The aim of this study is to analyze the linguistic variables (preceding phonological context, following phonological context, lexical classification, word length and lexical item) and the extralinguistic (gender, education, and geographic area) that influence this process. From the previous Bahians talk Atlas (APFB), 05 language letters (cálice, letter 47; clavícula, letter 57; óculos, letter 65; pérola, letter 66; and útero, letter 61) were examined. The corpus of this atlas consists of 100 respondents, from 50 cities in Bahia, with 75 of these individuals completely illiterate and most were between 39 and 49 years old. The data collected in our survey were coded and subjected to GoldVarb X statistical analysis. The results revealed that the most relevant factors groups, in order, were: phonological context, following phonological context and lexical classification.