A realização da fricativa glotal na fala manauara.

Abstract

This dissertation aims to investigate, from the perspective of Dialectology in its method Geolinguistic, of Variationist Sociolinguistics and of Natural Phonology (Stampe, 1973), the occurrence of the phonetic-phonological phenomenon of substitution of other fricatives by the glottal fricative [h, ɦ] in the manauara speech. This paperwork was developed through literature and field research. In field research, interviews with 24 informants were conducted, taking into account, among other selection criteria, gender (male; female), age group (18-35 years-old; 36-55 years-old; 56 years-old or more) and education (up to primary; higher education, graduated or not) as to verify the possible influence of these extralinguistic factors in the choice of variants by informants. The interviews were composed of responses to a phonetic-phonological questionnaire (PPQ), sentences reading and text reading. Later, the phonetic transcription and analysis of the data collected were conducted. The results show that: a) linguistically, only the consonant [f] was not substituted in the speech of any of the informants, while all the others have been substituted more or less frequently, being [s] and [ʃ] (in concurrent position) the most substituted ones; b) extralinguisticaly, the phenomenon occurred in more the speech of men than in women, more in the third age group than in the first and second, respectively, and more among the informants of the first level of education than in the second. KEYWORDS: