Aspectos fonético-fonológicos na interface Português-cabo-verdiano.

Abstract

The current paper aims to present phonetic-phonological aspects on the interface between Portuguese (as a superstrate language) and the Capeverdean language (as a creole language). First of all, a historical contextualization about Cape Verde and the Creole Languages was drawn up, based on Lima (2007) and Moniz (2007). The corpus of analysis was a text written in Capeverdean language – "Konstituison di Repúblika di Kabuverdi na Língua di Téra - PREÁNBULU". The development of the methodology consisted in the recording of this text by a Capeverdean student of the Phonoaudiology Course of UFPB. Then, the manual alignment of the sound file was generated in the software PRAAT for better identify the pronunciation of the words. For data analysis, the phonological processes of syllabic structure (apheresis, syncope, apocope, prothesis, metathesis, epenthesis, paragoge, vowel breaking and monophthongization) and replacement procedures (devoicing, anteriorization, substitution, semivocalization, plosivization, posteriorization, assimilation, sound reinforcement, heightening, drawdown, and palatalization) were considered. The analysis is descriptive, and it seeks to understand what occurred with the words identified in each detected phonological process, considering the phonetic-phonological appropriation of the analysis by the Capeverdean. By the analysis, it was found that the Capeverdean language has much in common with the European Portuguese language, which provided a lexical base for its development, but also, at times, its phonetic realization happens similar to Brazilian Portuguese language, although there has been no contact between both.