Interferência da fala na escrita de alunos do ensino médio: descrição e análise de usos de Monotongação e de Apagamento do [R] final

Abstract

The present study deals with the use of the Monophthongization phenomena of the diphthongs [ey] and [ow], as well as the erasure of the [R] at the end of the word in 292 texts written by high school students of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Amazonas. Concerned to the Labovian Sociolinguistics and, thus, considering a language as a result of social interactions, this paper attempts to describe and analyzes the role of social factors in the investigated phenomena, mainly the social role of the school in the process of acquiring the written language modality, which in certain cases, diverges from students spoken modality. In addition, it aims to describe and analyze how the linguistic contexts which favor a variation in speech, especially those that refer to the investigated phenomena here, may be present in the writing of the above mentioned students, contributing to a possible influence of speech in the writing of these students. In this way, we control two social variables (school grade and gender/ sex) in the three phenomena studied. As for the linguistic variables, the analysis referring to the monophthongization of the diphthong [ey], we control the variable mode of articulation of the following segment by means of tap factor [ɾ], voiceless palatal fricative [ʃ] and voiced palatal fricative [Ʒ]. Analyzing the diphthong [ow], we control the variable point of articulation in the following phonological context, considering the factors: a) lip occlusive [p, b, v], b) tap [ɾ], c) coronal, less tap [t, s], d) dorsal [k], e) absolute end. Regarding the analysis of the phenomenon zero realization [Ø] of the consonantal segment [R] we control the following variables: a) Extension of the word, b) Preview context, c) Subsequent context, d) Point of articulation of the subsequent segment, e) Morphological class of the word. The obtained results in the research suggest that, in writing, the investigated phenomena are not very productive and, as students progress in the high school series, they tend to decrease, thus evidencing the decisive role of the school as a place of maintenance of the linguistic form.