A prosódia da sequência númerica dos documentos oficiais de CPF e RENACH dos falantes do município de Belém

Abstract

It has already been proven in several natural languages, including Brazilian Portuguese (BP), that there is a standardized way of grouping the nominal numbers. This research, which performs an acoustic and perceptual investigation of the prosodic language level, has been concerned with verifying whether there is dialectal variation in relation to this grouping in BP, replicating the same research done by Musiliyu (2014) and Almeida (2017) in the northeastern variety, to compare these results with those obtained in the Belém variety. The groupings contained in the official documents, specifically the Driver Licence (DL) and the Individual Register (IR), were analyzed. The corpus comprises 40 document numbers, 20 from IR and 20 from DL. In this dissertation are presented the results from the data analysis of 100 participants stratified in age group: 18-30 (age group I) and over 30 years of age (age group II); sex (50 women and 50 men). The research hypotheses for this research were: 1) whether data from Belém corroborate the pattern identified by Musiliyu (2014) and Almeida (2017) from the data of Maceió and Recife, respectively; 2) if there is dialectal variation in the prosodic pattern of numerical groupings in PB; 3) if there is a dialectal variation related to the age group and sex. Methodologically, during the data collection, the numbers were presented to the participants of the research randomly with the use of a slide show with interval of 7 seconds. Each speaker produced 6 times each numerical sequence to select the 3 best repeats of each data (CRUZ et al, 2012), generating a corpus for analysis of 12,000 numerical sequences (40 document numbers x 100 informants x 3 best repeats). Apply the procedures adopted by Musiliyu (2014) and Almeida (2017), which are: a) isolation of the repetitions in individual files; b) segmentation in the Praat program; d) identification of numerical and decimal categorizations; e) concordance test, using the Kappa Fleiss coefficient and f) identification of the intonational distributions, through the application of scripts scripts MOMEL / INTSINT (HIRST, 2007) and ProsodyPro (XU, 2012) for Praat software version 5.3.53 (BOERSMA; WEENINK, 2013). The work performs a comparative analysis of the results obtained with those of Almeida (2017) and concludes that there is a prosodic pattern in relation to the groupings of the nominal numbers of CPF in the variations studied, both with reference to the strategies of numerical and decimal distributions as well as the description of the contour of each prosodic unit, which proves the first hypothesis of this research. (3) and MUDU (1), MUDU (2), MUDU (3), MUB / D (4) , respectively. Behavior also noted for the RENACH numbers. As for the second hypothesis, which deals with the dialectal variation of the prosodic pattern of numerical groupings in PB, it is not confirmed, since there were no changes among the studied varieties. In the same way, as there was no dialectal variation regarding the age group and sex.