A glotalização das fricativas anteriores na fala dos ribeirinhos no povoado Mocambinho em Buriti-MA

Abstract

The phonemes /v/, /z/, /ʒ/ and /s/, when used in words and expressions such as: 'a gente', 'mais', 'vamos', 'same', 'mais não', generally, are spoken as glottal sounds in many northeastern states. In this text, the main objective is to present an analysis of glottalization in fricative consonants in Portuguese in the Mocambinho village, in Buriti-Maranhão. For this, we carried out a bibliographical study in the area of ​​Sociolinguistics such as: LABOV, 2008 [1972], Weinreich, Labov and Herzog (2006 [1968]), Guy and Zilles (2007) and, in Phonetics and Phonology of Brazilian Portuguese: SILVA ( 2007), SEARA, NUNES and VOLCÃO (2022).After that,we collected data through sociolinguistic interviews, transcribed them and, finally, we qualitatively analyzed the occurrences of the phenomenon in the speech of riverside people. We observed that the riverside people's speech presents the phenomenon of glottalization of posterior fricatives, as there is an exchange of the alveopalatal [ʒ], and others as we will see later, in the initial and final context of syllables, as well as in the fricatives [s], [z] at the end of the syllable, whereas in the voiced labiodental [v] the occurrence occurs at the beginning of the syllable. Based on these results, we conclude that, in the speech sample of this research, the fricatives /v/, /z/, /ʒ / and /s/, are phonetically performed in voiced and voiceless ways in some situational contexts, a phenomenon that may vary influenced by linguistic and extralinguistic factors in view of the peculiarities of the speech community observed in this study.