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| Author(s): |
Amanda Macedo Balduino
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2022-04-29 |
| Examining board members: |
Gabriel Antunes de Araujo;
Maria Filomena Spatti Sandalo;
Luiz Carlos da Silva Schwindt;
Flaviane Romani Fernandes Svartman
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| Advisor: | Gabriel Antunes de Araujo |
| Abstract | |
The aim of this study is to describe and analyze the phonology of two macrovarieties spoken in São Tomé and Príncipe (stp): São Tomé Portuguese (pst) and Príncipe Portuguese (pp). The emergence of these varieties dates to the colonial establishment of Portuguese in a plurilingual environment, as well as its initial development as a second language, and later, as a mother language acquired by the natives. In recent years, Portuguese has been disseminated in stp to the detriment of autochthonous and other local languages. After 1975, Portuguese was adopted and transmitted by older generations, becoming the mother language of most of stp population -- a fact that allowed the emergence of unique Portuguese varieties. Considering this scenario, we seek as specific purposes: (i) to propose a unified phonology for pst and pp; (ii) list some phonetic aspects that can differentiate such varieties; (iii) analyze phenomena such as vowel raising, vowel harmony and vowel nasalization; (iv) to examine phenomena that affect liquids in coda, such as rhotic and lateral deletions and /l/ vocalization and velarization and, finally, (v) to study processes of external vowel sandhi such as degemination, elision and diphthongization. Therefore, we compiled the phonological phenomena in pst and pp, from spontaneous speech data collected in loco through interviews conducted with native speakers of Portuguese of different genders and ages. Subsequently, we applied tests, such as data elicitation with the aid of images, as well as repetition of the carrier sentences \"Eu falo X baixinho\" in order to expand the corpus. The first step helped us to identify the analyzed phenomena and the linguistic variables possibly involved in the processes. The second phase was essential for us to examine and test the preliminary hypotheses through the implementation of linear and logistic regression models carried out in Rbrul. All data were also analyzed in Praat to acoustically delimit the occurrence of the analyzed phenomena considering different phonetic parameters. That done, we propose a phonological analysis of the data guided by a non-linear analytical perspective. The theoretical models adopted were: autosegmental phonology; feature geometry; prosodic phonology and syllable theory. Data analysis with the aid of phonetic methods and the models mentioned allowed us to describe different sound structural aspects of São Tomé and Príncipe Portuguese (pstp), such as the consonants and vowels that make up its phonological framework, the syllable structure, the stress, among other factors directly related to the phonological phenomena in focus. The general phonotactic description of pst and pp, including the vowel and consonant phonological processes, thus allows a broader understanding of the macrovarieties of stp, demarcating the inherent characteristics of pstp, as well as aspects shared with other varieties of the Portuguese language. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 17/26595-1 - Phonological processes in the Portuguese varieties of San Thome and San Antonio of Principe |
| Grantee: | Amanda Macedo Balduino |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |