Interferência no par linguístico português-espanhol: um estudo sobre a nasalidade em textos escritos por venezuelanos

Abstract

Linguistic contact is the relationship between two or more languages in the same locality, which share common spaces, such as areas of commerce and education, especially in border areas. Roraima borders two countries: Venezuela and Guyana. The general objective of this thesis is to analyze the linguistic interferences present in textual productions of Venezuelan Portuguese learners on the Brazil/Venezuela border. For this article, we ground up on Weinreich (1974 [1953]), Silva-Valdivia (1994) and Siguan (2001) to define interference. The authors conceptualize it as the influence of an A language on a B language, which results in structures that do not belong to the grammatical system of any of the languages involved. Data collection took place between 2015 and 2017 in a Portuguese course for foreigners on the Brazil/Venezuela border. The corpus consisted of 47 essays written by 23 Venezuelans. For this article, we selected the interferences corresponding to nasality and we can conclude that the informants sometimes spell -n and sometimes spell -m in the context of the end of the word. When spelling -n, the informant marks only this element as being from his mother tongue, as the root of the word is in Portuguese.