A vogal média pretônica <o> nas capitais da região norte do Brasil

Abstract

This paper aims to describe the behavior of the unstressed back mid vowel based on the speech of informants of six capital cities of northern Brazil (Belém-PA, Manaus-AM, Rio Branco-AC, Macapá, AP, Porto Velho and Boa Vista, RR-RO), from phonetic-phonologicall(QFF) and lexical-semantic(QSL) questionnaire data, data collection instruments from theLinguistic Atlas of Brazil (ALiB). Data were transcribed with the use of Transcriberand then processed through the use of the variable rule program called VARBRUL which provided the useful relative weights for the analysis and variationist linguistic reflection. The instituted factors Groups for the description and linguistic analysis of the behavior of middle back unstressed vowels were the following: the phonetic nature of the consonantal segment; nature of the stressed vowel; distance between the stressed andthe unstressed preceding vowel, age, education, gender and origin. The research is justified by the importance of describing the variety of Brazilian Portuguese spoken in the Brazilian Amazon and contribute to the linguistic description of Brazilian Portuguese (BP).