A comparative study of the nasality in Santomense Portuguese and in Lung'ie and Santomé

• Grant number: 15/25332-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: April 01, 2016
• End date: February 28, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Portuguese Language
• Principal Investigator: Gabriel Antunes de Araujo
• Grantee: Amanda Macedo Balduino
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 17/02702-3 - A comparative study of nasality in São Tomé Portuguese and in Lung'ie and Santomé languages, BE.EP.MS

Abstract

The aim of this project is to describe and analyze the vowel nasality of the Santomense Portuguese (spoken in the municipality of São Tome in the Republic of São Tomé and Principe, Africa), proposing a comparative analysis with local Portuguese-based Creole languages (Lung'ie and Santome) and with results that already published for Brazilian Portuguese. Thus, a corpus with 80 minimal pairs recorded from three different informants will be formed, totaling 240 occurrences. Based on experimental methods of Laboratory Phonology (Browman & Goldstein 1989; Wetzels & Moraes 1992; Ohala 1995), the material will be collected from each informant in carry-sentences such as "I speak x twice" and "I speak x", where x is replaced with the target lexical item. Since São Tomé and Príncipe is a multilingual country, and three Portuguese-based Creole languages are spoken besides Portuguese, this study also investigates the source of nasality in two of the indigenous languages, Lung'ie and Santome (see Espírito Santo 1985; Gonçalves 2010; Christofoletti 2013). Data analysis, supported by the theoretical premises of CV phonology (Clements & Keyser 1938) and by Feature Geometry (Clements 1990), will be conducted using as parameters monophonemic (Leite 1994) and biphonemic assumptions of nasality (Mattoso Câmara Jr. 1953, 1970, Cagliari 1977, Wetzels 1991). Based on the results already achieved for Brazilian Portuguese (Wetzels & Moraes 1992) and for indigenous languages (Balduino, Agostinho, Araujo & Cristofoletti 2015), we assumed the biphonemic interpretation of vowel nasality of vernacular Santomense Portuguese as a work hypothesis. Such theoretical assumption may be confirmed by verifying the data and their respective analysis. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

AMANDA MACEDO BALDUINO; MANUELE BANDEIRA. O ESTATUTO FONOLÓGICO DA FRICATIVA VELAR NO FA D’AMBÔ. Alfa, rev. linguíst. (São José Rio Preto), v. 65, 2021-07-09. (17/26595-1, 15/25332-1)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

BALDUINO, Amanda Macedo. Nasality in Portuguese from São Tomé and Príncipe. 2018. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.