A redução do ditongo nasal átono final na cidade de Uberlândia

Abstract

This work has investigated the variation of the final unstressed nasal diphthong from the speech of people who live in Uberlândia MG. The main focus of this research has set itself between the full realization of the diphthong (viagem [viaʒẽj̃] ) and the reduced realization (viagi[viaʒi]). Using the statistic program GoldVarb X helpthe data measurement was made. After the description and the data analysis, observing frequency and relative importance, as generated by this program, a phonological analysis of the results was undertaken. The importance of this research is in the fact of its contribution to linguistic studies, when describing a variable phenomenonrank in the Brazilian Portuguese, with a specific region data, TriânguloMineiro, where Uberlândia is situated the city where the data has been collected. Finally, as theoretical support, we have been based on Battisti (1997; 2002), Bisol (1989; 1999), Câmara Jr. ([1970] 2008), Bopp da Silva (2005), Labov ([1972] 2008) and Selkirk (1982). The program GoldVarb X has selected the school level, vowel type, grammatical type and age groupas the processsuppliers of the final unstressed nasal diphthong reduction. The theoretical model of Selkirk (1982) was crucial for the understanding of descriptive and representational constitution of the after reduction syllable structure of the diphthong.