O Alçamento Vocálico no corpus do Projeto Atlas Linguístico do Brasil: Ceará e Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

This dissertation presents an analysis of the vowel raising phenomenon in the corpus of the Project Atlas Linguístico do Brasil in two geographic areas of Brazil: one in the Northeast, Ceará, and one in the South, Rio Grande do Sul. To achieve this objective, data from 6 locations in Ceará - Ipu, Canindé, Crateús, Russas, Iguatu and Crato - and 6 locations in Rio Grande do Sul - Três Passos, Vacaria, Santa Cruz do Sul, Santa Maria, Uruguaiana were selected. and Chuí -, locations that are part of the ALiB Project's network of points. In total, 48 surveys were analyzed. The research sample consisted of interviews carried out in loco, by the ALiB team, with a total of 48 informants stratified by sex (male and female) and age group (I- 18 to 30 years and II- 50 to 65 years). The analysis is based on the assumptions of Contemporary Pluridimensional Dialectology and Geolinguistics and Quantitative Sociolinguistics. From the data obtained, it can be seen that the phenomenon of vowel lifting is supradialectal and widespread in all regions, sexes and age groups, with most cases explained by linguistic issues, in particular by the phenomenon of vowel harmony. From the linguistic variables, it appears that the high vowel in the following stressed or unstressed position constitutes the main motivation for the occurrence of the phenomenon. Some consonant segments, precedents and subsequents also favor or disfavor the raising. Thus, most of the variables selected by the Goldvarb 2001 statistical program were linguistic. As for the extralinguistic variables, only age group II was selected as favoring, but when comparing with the numbers found in age group I, it is possible to see that the difference is minimal. Diatopy did not present significant results, with a balance in the number of cases found in the two analyzed states.