The purpose of this thesis is to study whether target-like articulation of the Spanish tap [ɾ] and trill [r] is achieved by second language learners who have lived in a Spanish-speaking environment for an extensive period of time. The subjects of this study were students at Brigham Young University (BYU) who had spent 18 months to two years in a Spanish-speaking country. Most of the subjects had little to no previous Spanish instruction, but rather learned the language primarily through their contact with native speakers while abroad. In addition to whether or not subjects achieved target-like pronunciation of these two Spanish sounds, this study sought to observe whether or not certain linguistic factors (e.g., neighboring sounds, syllable stress, etc.) and extra-linguistic factors (e.g., previous Spanish instruction, instructors who were native speakers of Spanish, articulation in formal or informal speech, etc.) had influence on their articulation. The results of this study reveal that the subjects were generally successful in articulating the Spanish rhotic sounds. The majority of the subjects pronounced the rhotics in a target-like manner over 80% of the time. Furthermore, while previous studies have claimed that the transfer of the American English approximant [ɹ] is the most common error when acquiring the Spanish tap and trill, the current study suggests that the most common error of L2 speakers who have lived abroad is developmental: the production of the tap [ɾ] in place of the trill /r/. Lastly, it reveals, through the results of a variable rule analysis, that the two most significant factors in accurate tap and trill articulation are its phonetic context and whether or not the participants had received adequate Spanish instruction prior to having lived abroad.

Submitted by Viviane Lima da Cunha (viviane@biblioteca.ufpb.br) on 2018-01-24T12:16:32Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 3955410 bytes, checksum: 6775dd72d11a9bce3ff72cda1cea878e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-01-24T12:16:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 3955410 bytes, checksum: 6775dd72d11a9bce3ff72cda1cea878e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-01-23 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This thesis will examine the phonetic-phonological behaviour of rhotic in position of coda in the speech of 36 subjects from the north of Piauí state and the capital- Teresina. For this study, the sociolinguistic approach was used, with the support of the Variation Theory. In the findings four variants were found, the glottal fricatives [h] with 48.1% and zero phonetic [ø] with 22.2%, those which obtained the highest percentage of occurrence with 48.1% of occurences. On the other hand, the tap [] showed 19.01% and the palatal fricative [] with 10.6% of realization. Taking into consideration the more recurring variants, the findings show that the search results revealed that these variations are due to both the linguistic and social limitations, but they are more sensitive to the phonetic-phonological context. For the linguistic analysis, the previous and the following phonological context restrictions were considered, the position in syllable, the tone, the length of word and the grammatical category, were also taken into account, while for the social aspects, education, gender and age were chosen by the program Goldvarb. The findings showed that the restriction of the grammatical category was the one which most favored the variants, and the glottal fricative variants presented more evident results. From the acoustic view, with the help of the Acoustic Theory of Speech Production, in view of Kent and Read (1992), and other theoretitions linked to the acoustics perspective, in order to undertake an acoustic analysis of the segments /h/, /h/ e /h/, with emphasis on the latter two, considered in this study variations of [h]. To make such an analysis the study was grounded on the support of the Praat program. The results which were obtained from both linguistic analysis as well as acoustics analysis lead to the discussions concerning the behavior of the rhotic in Piauiense speech, noting that the four variants are recurrent in this speech community. However, the greatest focus was on the palatal fricative variant [], a realization not yet found in the pertinent linguistic literature. This phonetic-phonological phenomenon always happens before a silent glottal fricative when followed by a palatal fricative, also silent, and can be interpreted in two ways: first described as [h], which proves that the silent alveolar occlusive [t] constitutes the first consonant of silent affricate alveopalatal that blends with the following consonant. In this manner there is a kind of ressilabification of the merging type while maintaining the standard syllabic pattern CVC. CV remains the most simplified type. In the second realization one observes that the silent alveolar occlusive stays the same along with the affricate in the following syllabic attack. In both events evidence a kind of regressive assimilation was observed especially in the last occurrence, in which the assimilator is found after the assimmilated element. In both phenomena a partial type of palatalization was observed. This type of palatalization is a linguistic peculiarity restricted to specific language spoken in Piaui. / Nessa tese será examinado o comportamento fonético-fonológico dos róticos em posição de coda na fala de 36 informantes oriundos do norte do Estado (PI) e da capital – Teresina. Para a realização deste estudo, adotou-se a abordagem sociolingüística, contando com apoio da Teoria da Variação. Nos resultados, foram encontradas quatro variantes, sendo a fricativa glotal [h], com 48,1% e o zero fonético [ø], com 22,2% as que obtiveram maior percentual de ocorrências. Por outro lado, o tepe [] apresentou 19,01% e a fricativa palatal [] 10,6% de realização. Considerando as variantes mais recorrentes, os resultados da pesquisa revelaram que elas são decorrentes tanto das restrições lingüísticas, quanto das sociais, contudo, mais sensíveis ao contexto fonético-fonológico. Para a análise lingüística, consideraram-se as restrições contexto fonológico precedente e seguinte, posição na sílaba, tonicidade, extensão da palavra e categoria gramatical; quanto aos sociais, tem-se escolaridade, gênero e faixa etária, conforme a seleção realizada pelo programa Goldvarb. Os resultados mostraram que a restrição categoria gramatical foi a que mais favoreceu as variantes, e a variante fricativa glotal, a que apresentou resultados mais evidentes. Do ponto de vista da acústica, recorreu-se à Teoria Acústica da Produção da Fala, na perspectiva de Kent e Read (1992), e de outros teóricos relacionados à mesma perspectiva, com vistas a empreender uma análise acústica dos segmentos //, /h/ e //, dando-se destaque para as duas últimas, consideradas, nesse trabalho, variações de [h]. Para empreender essas análises acústicas, contou-se com o apoio do programa Praat. Os resultados obtidos com a análise lingüística e a acústica permitiram o encaminhamento das discussões relativas ao comportamento do rótico na fala do piauiense, observando-se que as quatro variantes são recorrentes nessa comunidade de fala. Contudo, o foco maior ficou para a variante fricativa palatal [], que se deu em virtude de ser uma ocorrência não encontrada na literatura lingüística pertinente. Esse fenômeno fonético-fonológico acontece sempre diante de uma fricativa glotal surda seguida de uma fricativa palatal, também, surda, que pode ser interpretada de duas maneiras: na primeira descrita como [h], constata-se a oclusiva alveolar surda [t], que constitui a primeira consoante da africada alveopalatal surda a fundir-se com a consoante seguinte, sofrendo, desse modo, uma espécie de ressilabificação do tipo degeminação, mantendo o padrão silábico CVC.CV de modo mais simplificado; na segunda realização [h], percebe-se que a oclusiva alveolar surda [t] se mantém, permanecendo também a africada no ataque silábico seguinte. Em ambas as realizações constata-se um tipo de assimilação regressiva, verificada, principalmente, na última ocorrência, na qual se observa que o assimilador encontra-se depois do elemento assimilado. Nesses dois fenômenos verifica-se uma palatalização, do tipo parcial. Esse tipo de palatalização é uma particularidade lingüística restrita ao falar piauiense.

In the light of the Theory of Variation and Change and Generative Phonology, in this study, aims to investigate the performance of a segment /R/ in the community of Porto da Rua (in the northern coast of Alagoas). The phonetic environment in which this realization occurs was determined, as well as the influence of extralinguistic factors analysed. The corpus for this research consisted of 48 informants among men and women born in the community. The categorization of data and statistical analysis were done using the package VARBRUL. Data were coded according to linguistic and social groups of factors (GF). The results indicated that the variant under study may be undergoing a process of linguistic change, since those responsible for spreading the informants are not in school and age over 50 years. Data collection was done through recordings with spontaneous narratives. The objective is thus to study the correlation between linguistic phenomena and stratified external variables (gender, age and education). / Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Alagoas / À luz da Teoria da Variação e Mudança e da Fonologia gerativa, pretendeu-se, neste estudo, investigar a realização de um segmento /R/ na comunidade de Porto da Rua (litoral norte de Alagoas). Determinamos o ambiente fonético em que essa realização ocorre e verificamos a influência de fatores extralinguísticos. O corpus para a pesquisa constituiu-se de dados de fala, gravados em áudio, de textos espontâneos produzidos por 48 informantes, homens e mulheres nascidos (e que viveram sempre) na comunidade. A categorização dos dados e a análise estatística foram feitas com a utilização do pacote VARBRUL. Os dados foram codificados de acordo com grupos de fatores (GF) linguísticos e sociais. Objetivou-se, dessa forma, estudar a correlação entre fenômenos linguísticos e variáveis externas estratificadas (sexo, faixa etária e escolarização). Os resultados indicaram que a variante em estudo pode estar passando por um processo de mudança linguística, uma vez que os responsáveis pela sua realização são os informantes não escolarizados e a faixa etária com mais de 50 anos.

Submitted by Thiago Bronzeado de Andrade (thiago@ch.uepb.edu.br) on 2018-06-08T12:34:37Z No. of bitstreams: 1 PDF - Sandra Cabral Lopes.pdf: 19559264 bytes, checksum: b39099cbcf0067be5e37164c8c8e7872 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Milena Araújo (milaborges@ch.uepb.edu.br) on 2018-06-11T13:33:41Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 PDF - Sandra Cabral Lopes.pdf: 19559264 bytes, checksum: b39099cbcf0067be5e37164c8c8e7872 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-11T13:33:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PDF - Sandra Cabral Lopes.pdf: 19559264 bytes, checksum: b39099cbcf0067be5e37164c8c8e7872 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-27 / CAPES / In the process of teaching the Portuguese language as a mother tongue in Brazil, it is common to find, in different educational levels, the influence of speech in writing, whether on textual-discursive aspects, or on morphosyntactic and orthographic aspects. Thus, in this study we investigate the interference of speech in 7th and 8th grade students‟ writing, enrolled in a public school in Guarabira-PB, with a focus on the elision of the rhotic in syllable codas. The aim is to show the linguistic and social factors favorable to the realization/elision of the consonantal segment -R at the end of syllables. The corpus consists of 88 texts, 44 written before and 44 written after an educational intervention. As the factor groups which may interfere on the elision of –R, we consider educational level, sex, word class, position of –R in the word, length of the word and precedent context. As conditioners to rhotic elision, the results point out the variables school level (7th grade), word class (verb), position in the word (ending), length of the word (non-monosyllables), and precedent context (high and low vowels). It was still possible to see, from an educational intervention considering these results, that a systematic work paying attention to the phonological consciousness turns to be productive in the context where orthographic specificities of the Portuguese language are taught. The work is based on three main areas of theoretical studies: phonetics/phonology (BISOL, 2005; SILVA, 2014, 2011; HORA & PEDROSA, 2012; CÂMARA Jr., 2008), variational and applied sociolinguistics (BAGNO, 2007; LABOV, 1992; BORTONI-RICARDO, 2004, 2005) and notions related to the processes involved in the acquisition and development of the writing system, including the implications of speech in writing over the course of schooling (SCLIAR-CABRAL, 2013; MARCUSCHI & DIONISIO, 2007; STAMPA, 2009; FERREIRA & TEBEROSKY, 1999). / No ensino de Língua Portuguesa como língua materna, é comum encontrarmos, em diferentes graus de escolaridade, a influência da fala na escrita, seja nos aspectos textuais-discursivos, seja nos aspectos morfossintáticos e ortográficos. Dessa forma, neste trabalho buscamos investigar a interferência da fala na escrita de alunos do 7º e 8º anos do EF, matriculados em uma escola da rede pública do município de Guarabira-PB, por meio do apagamento do rótico em posição de coda silábica. Nosso propósito é evidenciar os contextos linguísticos e extralinguísticos favoráveis à realização ou não do segmento consonantal –R no final das sílabas. O corpus é constituído de 88 produções textuais, sendo 44 elaboradas antes e 44 após uma proposta de intervenção pedagógica. São considerados, como grupos de fatores que interferem ou não no apagamento do –R, o grau de escolarização, o sexo, a classe de palavras, a posição na palavra, a extensão da palavra e o contexto precedente. Como condicionadores ao apagamento do rótico, os resultados apontam as variáveis ano escolar (7º ano), classe de palavras (verbo), posição na palavra (final), extensão do vocábulo (palavra não monossilábicas) e contexto precedente (vogais altas e vogal baixa). Ainda foi possível perceber, a partir de uma proposta de intervenção considerando esses resultados, que um trabalho sistemático que atente, dentre outros fatores, para o trabalho com a consciência fonológica torna-se produtivo no contexto de ensino das especificidades ortográficas da língua portuguesa. Como base teórica, consideramos os estudos fonético-fonológicos (BISOL, 2005; SILVA, 2014, 2011; HORA e PEDROSA, 2012; CÂMARA Jr., 2008), os estudos da sociolinguística variacionista e educacional (BAGNO, 2007; LABOV, 1992; BORTONI-RICARDO, 2004, 2005) e noções relacionadas aos processos envolvidos na aquisição e desenvolvimento da escrita, incluindo as implicações da fala na escrita ao longo da escolarização (SCLIAR-CABRAL, 2013; MARCUSCHI e DIONISIO, 2007; STAMPA, 2009; FERREIRA e TEBEROSKY, 1999).

Ce travail propose une description et une analyse de la phonologie du français parlé à Bordeaux et dans son agglomération, à partir d’un corpus d’enquêtes réalisées suivant la méthodologie et le protocole développés dans le cadre du Projet de la Phonologie du Français Contemporain (PFC), développé par Jacques Durand (ERSS, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail), Bernard Laks (MoDyCo, Université de Paris X) et Chantal Lyche (Universités d’Oslo et de Tromsø). Plusieurs aspects de la phonologie du français bordelais sont abordés, en prenant en compte la diversité diastratique des locuteurs et les différences diaphasiques des tâches linguistiques, en particulier la question des lois de position des voyelles, la liaison et le schwa. L’étude détaillée ici se base sur l’analyse d’entretiens enregistrés réalisés auprès de dix-huit adultes venant de Bordeaux et de son agglomération. Les participants à cette enquête ont été interviewés entre juin et juillet 2015, selon le protocole du Projet PFC, et les enregistrements ont été transcrits, codés et analysés par l’auteure, également selon les protocoles du Projet PFC. Les locuteurs ont été sélectionnés de manière à représenter une diversité équilibrée en termes d’âge, de sexe, de niveaux d’études, de milieu socioéconomique/culturel et de situation géographique pendant l’enfance. Nous observons des tendances dans la réalisation de plusieurs phénomènes phonologiques. La liaison et le schwa sont utilisés plus en lecture de texte qu’en conversation libre. Cependant, le schwa est réalisé le moins dans la lecture de la liste de mots. Une analyse diachronique révèle que les Bordelais actuels suivent la Loi de Position davantage comparé aux locuteurs décrits dans les travaux précédents. Nous constatons que l’âge apparaît comme un facteur statistiquement significatif dans la diversité diastratique pour cet échantillon de locuteurs. Nous considérons également la variation diatopique, diaphasique et diachronique. Ce travail contribue à l’étude de la variation du français parlé aujourd’hui. / This study provides a description and an analysis of the French spoken in Bordeaux and the surrounding communities, based on a corpus of studies following the methodology and the protocol developed within the framework of the Contemporary French Phonology (PFC) Project, developed by Jacques Durand (ERSS, University of Toulouse-Le Mirail), Bernard Laks (MoDyCo, University of Paris X) and Chantal Lyche (University of Oslo and University of Tromsø). Several aspects of the phonology of Bordeaux French are studied, taking into consideration the sociolinguistic diversity of the speakers and the stylistic differences of the linguistic tasks, specifically the Loi de Position for vowels, liaison and schwa. The study detailed here is based on the analysis of audio-recorded interviews of eighteen adults from Bordeaux and the surrounding communities. The participants in this study were interviewed between June and July 2015, according to PFC protocol, and the recordings were transcribed, coded and analyzed by the author, also in accordance with PFC protocol. The speakers were selected in order to represent a balanced diversity in terms of age, sex, level of education, socioeconomic/cultural background, and childhood neighborhood. We observe patterns in terms of the realization of several phonological phenomena. Liaison and schwa are used more in the reading task than in conversation. However, schwa is used the least in the word list. A diachronic analysis reveals that the people from Bordeaux today follow the Loi de Position more than the speakers described in previous research did. We conclude that age is shown to be a statistically significant sociolinguistic factor for this sample of speakers. We also take into account variation in terms of geography, style and chronology. This work contributes to the study of phonological variation in spoken French today.

Il existe dans le sud ouest algérien plusieurs variétés de berbère. Certaines d'entre elles sont situées dans la région dite du Sud-Oranais et peuvent être cataloguées comme des langues en danger. Nous avons donc entrepris de décrire ces variétés avant qu'elles ne disparaissent. Cela a été mené à bien en réalisant plusieurs enquêtes de terrain. Par ailleurs, ce travail de documentation linguistique et de conservation du patrimoine culturel n'est qu'un des aspects de cette thèse. Ce travail académique est à la croisée de différents domaines disciplinaires. Nous avons eu recours aux méthodes en usage en Sciences de l'Information Géographique (SIG) et en Sciences Des Données (SDD) pour mener une étude dialectologique. Grâce aux SIG, nous avons réalisé une étude géolinguistique qui nous a permis de visualiser sur des cartes linguistiques la distribution de la variation linguistique de certaines consonnes. À partir de ces données, nous avons discuté de la réalité phonologique de ces consonnes simples et géminées. Dans le prolongement, une étude dialectométrique a été effectuée en nous basant sur des méthodes de partitions des données. Nous avons utilisé les méthodes d'Apprentissage Non Supervisé (PHA, k-moyenne, MDS, ...) et les méthodes d'Apprentissage Supervisé (CART) connues en SDD. Les résultats ont été affichés sous la forme de figures (cartes linguistiques, dendogramme, heatmap, arbre, ...) à des fins d'exploration visuelle des données. L'ensemble de ces études a été accompli par le biais d'un traitement informatique (langage R). Puis, nous avons entrepris une analyse phonétique fondée sur une étude acoustique des rhotiques alvéolaires : [ɾ], [r], [ɾˤ] et [rˤ]. Ces unités phoniques se distinguent par leur temporalité et leur réalisation articulatoire. Ainsi, les spectrogrammes nous ont permis d'examiner la distribution de ces sons. Puis, cela nous a aidé à distinguer ce qui relevait de la phonétique et de la phonologie. Ensuite, nous avons achevé cette thèse par une étude phonétique et statistique. Ces dernières ont porté sur l'obstruction réalisée par la pointe de la langue et sur la nature des vocoïdes qui accompagnent les rhotiques alvéolaires dans l'environnement d'une consonne. / There are several Berber languages in the south west of Algeria. Some of them are situated in the so-called Sud-Oranais and they can be categorized as endangered languages. So I have decided to describe them before they disappear. That’s why, I have carried out several fieldworks. But, this linguistic documentation work and cultural heritage conservation are just one of aspects of our thesis. This PhD are transdisciplinary. I have used the methods which are applied in Geographic Information Science (GIS) and in Data Science (DS) to carry out a dialectological study. A geolinguistic study has been undertaken and has enabled to visualize the expansion of the linguistic variation of certain consonants through GIS. Based on these data, I have debated the phonological reality of the simple and geminate consonants. From this research, a dialectometric study was carried out on the basis of data partitioning methods. I have used the Unsupervised Learning Methods (HAC, k-mean, MDS, ...) and the Supervised Learning Methods (CART) known in DS. A visual exploration (linguistic maps, dendogram, heatmap, tree, ...) approach is proposed in order to analyse the results which have been realized through computer processing (R language). Then, I have undertaken a phonetic analysis, which is based on an acoustic study of alveolar rhotics : [ɾ], [r], [ɾˤ] and [rˤ]. These phonic unities are distinguished by their temporality and their articulatory realization. Thus, the spectrograms enabled to examine the distribution of these sounds and to distinguish what was related to phonetic and phonology. Then, this thesis with a phonetic and statistical study has reinforced this research focused on the obstruction made by the tip of the tongue and on the nature of the vocoids which goes along with the alveolar rhotic in the area of the consonants.