Abstract
This project aims to explain the phonological behaviour of the pretonic mid-vowels in the variety of São Paulo State, more specifically of the region of São José do Rio Preto (SP). These vowels are subject to vowel raising, a variable phenomenon in which the mid-vowels /e/ and /o/ are pronounced, respectively, as the high vowels [i] and [u], for instance in "p[i]queno" ("small"/"little") …