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Estudo fonológico da língua Waiwái (Caribe): uma contribuição
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2011-09-27) ACÁCIO, Mara Sílvia Jucá; RODRIGUES, Carmen Lúcia Reis; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2766837148466800
This study aims to document, describe and analyze some phonological aspects of the Waiwai language, one of the languages of the Cariban family, and apply them for scientific purposes. This language is spoken by the inhabitants of the Indigenous Land Nhamundá / Mapuera, located on the border of the state of Pará with the state of Amazonas. The study is justified by the attempt to update the data on other aspects of phonology and grammar of the Waiwai language. The only works about the phonology of the Waiwai indigenous people are those of Neil W. Hawkins (1952) and Robert E. Hawkins (1998). For this reason, it will seek to establish, more specifically, the phonetic-phonological system of the language. The methodology used is part of a descriptive approach, interpreting, synchronously, the phonological structure of language study in its oral form. The research corpus is based on systematic analysis of the data, identifying and analyzing the vowel and consonant segments, objects of study of phonetics and phonology, giving an account of how this language organizes its sounds, as well as some considerations about the accent and syllabic pattern of the language. For the development of this research we have considered works by structural linguistics and functionalist linguistics scholars.
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Observações sobre os correlatos acústicos do acento em Apurinã (Aruák): estudo de um caso
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2015-04) SANTOS, Benedito de Sales; FACUNDES, Sidney da Silva
This article investigates the hypothesis of duration being an acoustic correlate of stress in Apurinã, taking into account the results given by other authors. Cross-linguistic studies have suggested such a correlation. In this study duration is investigated in unstressed syllables, and in ones bearing primary and secondary stress. The article reviews previous work on Apurinã stress and then presents and analyzes new data. These results suggest a correlation between duration and primary stress only, and raise questions about the phonetic nature of such a correlation. The results also raise a theoretical question in phonology, namely the status of syllables with nasal vowels, which seem to behave like heavy or bimoraic syllables.
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Optimality theory and historical phonology: an example from nasal harmony in Mundurukú
(2013) PICANÇO, Gessiane Lobato
This paper offers an account of diachronic changes in nasal harmony in Mundurukú, a Tupian language from Brazil. It attempts to show that the Optimality Theory provides new ways of accounting for sound change, other than constraint re-ranking. A comparison of Mundurukú and Kuruaya's modern systems points out that the source system, Proto-Mundurukú, had similar properties to those currently observed in Kuruaya. In particular, nasal spread targets were voiced stops and sonorants, whereas voiceless obstruents were transparent. This system was developed into another in Pre-Mundurukú, because new contrasts were introduced in the language, turning obstruents into opaque segments, thus blocking nasalization. Formal OT account of both cases relies on restricting harmony constraints, as shown by the relative chronology that gave rise to Mundurukú's modern system. In addition, this study discusses the consequences of this change to synchronic grammar, and how it explains the process' irregularities.
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Substituição na produção de /ɵ/ e /ð/ por falantes do português: uma análise não linear
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2013-08-30) PINTO, Antonio Sergio da Costa; OLIVEIRA, Marilucia Barros de; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9728768970430501
The present work describes the production of the Interdental Fricatives of the English language by Brazilian Portuguese speakers (BP) who are learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in the Foreign Language Program of UFPA/ILC/FALEM. The aim of this research is to investigate the possibilities of substitution occurrences to the voiced Interdental Fricative and its voiceless counterpart in syllable onset and coda. The outcomes are analyzed based on the Feature Geometry Phonology, by (Clements & Hume, 1995).The data were taken from the reading test performances of twenty-two students of English at Falem’s Cursos Livres. 12 third level students and 10 seventh level students were involved in the research. We intend to illustrate the itemized graphical representation of the substitution process that speakers of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) who are learners of English as a second language (ESL) articulate, specifically regarding the interdental fricative segments of the English language in its voiceless and voiced versions /Ɵ/ e /ð/, in the process of acquisition of the English phonology. Different types of segments were encountered in our research, as results of the substitutions, such as: [t],[tʃ],[d] [f] and [s] for the voiceless interdental fricative /Ɵ/ and [t],[d],[s],[f],[v] and [tʃ] for its voiced counterpart /ð/ . The main types of processes observed were: (a) Strengthening, (b) Posteriorization (c) Sonorization (d) Palatalization (e) Labialization (f) Epenthesis and (g) Resyllabification. All resulting of a previous process called Nativization.