A Variação do rótico em falantes da comunidade quilombola de Alto Alegre - BA

Abstract

This monograph The variation in the rhotic of speakers in the quilombola community of Alto Alegre-Ba, based on the theoretical conceptions of Sociolinguistic Variationist, had the purpose of investigating the variation of / R / in syllabic coda in Afro-Brazilian Portuguese expressed by the community of Alto Alegre, which is part of the municipality of Presidente Tancredo Neves (262 km from Salvador) and since 2008 was legitimized by the Palmares Cultural Foundation as remnant of the quilombo. The corpus studied consisted of 600 occurrences of <R> in syllabic coda, extracted from the colloquial speech of six men and six women, without schooling, born from the community, randomly selected according to three age groups: range I, from 20 to 40 years; range II, from 40 to 60 years; and range III, above 60 years. The survey results show that there are two rules in the community: deletion in coda position and velar fricative. Although many studies have shown that the erasure is a common and generalized phenomenon in Brazilian Portuguese, the results showed that the erasure rates in the quilombola community of Alto Alegre are much more expressive when compared to other studies. This result may indicate that the deletion in coda position of the <R> may have been influenced by the process of contact between languages through which the community may have passed.