The phoneme /z/ chameleon in the Tenetehára language: a variationist approach
This paper aims to investigate the phonological distribution of the phoneme /z/ in the Tenetehára language, which is spoken in the indigenous territories located in the states of Maranhão and Pará. In order to proceed with the analysis, we use the methods and the theoretical principles proposed by t...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade de Brasília (UnB) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Brasileira de Linguística Antropológica (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/46457 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/ling/article/view/46457 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Sociolinguística Dialetologia Variação linguística Língua Tenetehára Sociolinguistic Dialectology Linguistic Variation Tenetehára Language |
| Sumario: | This paper aims to investigate the phonological distribution of the phoneme /z/ in the Tenetehára language, which is spoken in the indigenous territories located in the states of Maranhão and Pará. In order to proceed with the analysis, we use the methods and the theoretical principles proposed by the Sociolinguistic and the Dialectology, whose main task is to deal with the variationist phenomenon as a result of the correlation among the linguistic variants and the social parameters. The analysis demonstrated that the phoneme/z/ can be realized by means of seven allophones, whose occurrences are constrained by linguistic and extralinguistic factors. We also address the issue concerning the challenge that such phonetic variation entails for the establishment of a coherent and uniform orthography. |
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