Prótese vocálica em sequência sC inicial no francês como língua adicional: análise espectral de usuárias brasileiras

Abstract

The present work presents spectral data of the prosthetic vowels produced by Brazilian participants in a sibilant with a consonant word-initial sequence (#sC) in French as an additional language (AL). This experimental group was composed by 9 Brazilian women (24-37 of age) living in Geneva (Switzerland), Brazilian Portuguese (BP) native speakers as their only mother tongue (L1) and students of French AL as well. The analysis of the data, carried out by means of an individual methodology, was conceived in the light of the Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) (LARSEN-FREEMAN, 1997; LARSEN-FREEMAN; CAMERON, 2008; ELLIS; LARSEN-FREEMAN, 2009) and Gestural Phonology (BROWMAN; GOLDSTEIN, 1988, 1989, 1992; ALBANO, 1990, 2001). The current investigation presents the gross form values of F1, F2 and F3 of the 451-vowel prosthesis performed during the reading of 1296 carrier sentences. The results point to the existence of hybrid vowels in terms of their quality: anterior mean-high observed in PB, but with recurrent partial bilabial rounding in French. This demonstrates that the participants’ phonological repertoire of the present research does not seem to faithfully reflect the L1, corroborating papers available in the literature aligned to the CAS. Finally, the dynamic, unpredictability and non-linearity of language postulated by the paradigm of complexity in the development of LA is legitimated.