Entoação das frases declarativas e interrogativas totais no português falado em Maués, no Amazonas

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the behavior of speakers of intonation city Maués at Amazon. This is a study linked to AMPER project, which seeks to describe the prosody of the Romance languages and, therefore, uses a corpus of declarative and interrogative sentences total. The sentences of the corpus may have 10, 13 and 14 members, of which the last two feature types with adjectival or prepositional phrase extension, respectively, to the right of the verb, as in "The bird likes the drunk grandfather" or "The bird likes Renato Venice ". Overall, work with a corpus of 396 sentences in which the pre-core and intonational separately core were observed. We describe, for these regions accent, melodic settings of the fundamental frequency, duration and intensity in order to identify the prosodic feature of sentences. The data are graphed automatically generated with the help of manuals and sripts etiquetagens through the Praat software. Our results showed that in the core region, the declarative mode, the initial movement is low, followed by an increase in the frequency syllable stressed and subsequent decline in post-tonic. In the interrogative mode data revealed that the attack syllabic part of a high frequency, followed by fall and subsequent rise in the post-tonic syllable. But beyond that, what caught our attention in relation to the contours exposed in the description was the behavior of the final vowel of the utterances, ie, the erasure process by which passed with no attendance record this frásica position. While for the duration showed no obvious values that leave the distinction between declarative and interrogative sentence, given the proximity of the measures set out in the histograms, nevertheless, in most cases, the questioning had higher measures, especially in stressed syllables. As regards intensity, interrogative exhibited higher energy than in stressed syllables declarative. In male speech that distinction is not very explicit, since the average intensity values are very close, whereas in female speech, occurred more explicit records for the amounts of energy.