METAPLASMS IN THE SPEECH OF MELGACENS: A SYNCHRONIC CROP

Abstract

Historically, the Portuguese language has undergone several processes of phonetic transformation called metaplasms, which are the object of study of this work, whose objective is to identify phonetic transformations in the speech of residents of Melgaço-PA, treating them as processes of linguistic variation. Based on Coutinho's (1976) models, Câmara Jr. (1884), Labov (2008), Bagno (2008) and Faraco (2007), for the constitution of the corpus, a questionnaire was built, consisting of previously selected questions containing, on purpose, the answers with the most recurrent transformed words, having A total of 120 data were collected. The quantitative analysis shows that the most recurrent metaplasms in the investigated community are of the transformation type, i.e., a phoneme of the word is transformed into another phoneme. We emphasize that this study is a synchronous approach, considering only factors of an extralinguistic nature in the variations found.