As palatais lateral e nasal no falar paraense: uma análise variacionista e fonológica

Abstract

In this work we do a research about the variations of the lateral and nasal palatal consonants, in six cities of the state of Pará, as follows, Altamira, Belém, Bragança, Marabá, Soure, Santarém, each one of them located in a mesoregion of the state. The corpus of the research is constituted of spontaneous speech, obtained in form of narrative of personal experience among 24 informants born in these cities, totalizing 144 informants, selected using the theoretical dispositions of the Quantitative Sociolinguistic. The treating of the data takes into account, besides the social variables, linguistic variables considered as conditionings of the variation phenomenon in study, which statistic analysis is done using the package program VARBRUL (98) in ternary rounds, according the amount of identified variants for each linguistic variation. Besides this analysis, we propose an interpretation of the phonological process involved in the phonetical realization based on the theoretical conditionings of the Features Geometry. The results obtained show that the variable phenomenon associated to the nasal and lateral palatal speeches studied, are conditioned by linguistic as well as social factors, and that can be interpreted in the light of a phonological theory, in the case the Phonology of Features Geometry. In this theory, we can see that the phenomenon related to the variants of these segments can be understood as resultants of connected and disconnected of features, characterizing different phonetical variations, which uses, therefore, are conditioned by the values that are attributed in consequence of social factors, such as sex, age, school education and origin of the speakers.