A síncope das proparoxítonas no Atlas Linguístico do Pará: uma fotografia variacionista

Abstract

Based on the theoretical and methodological assumptions of Sociolinguistics Labovian, this study focuses on the data of the Linguistic Atlas Sound of Para (ALiSPA), syncope of antepenultimate stressed words. This phenomenon, which has happened in Latin, occurs when there is a reduction in body of phonic word, as in óculos>oclus. This work contributes to studies on Brazilian Portuguese, in addition to providing the teacher of mother tongue, allowing you to have knowledge of the linguistic reality of their students. The objective of this study is to analyze the behavior of linguistic factors (lexical item and word length) and extralinguistic (location, age, gender and frequency of use of the word) on the rule analyzed. In this research, we used, in full, the database ALiSPA. This corpus consists of 40 informants, coming ten cities Para, 20 men and 20 women, equally distributed in two age groups: I- 19 to 33, and II -40 70. All informants have at most the fifth year of elementary school. The results obtained after submitting the data to statistical tool Goldvarb X reveal that selected as relevant to the reduction factors were: frequency of use of the item, lexical item and location.