M[i]NINO OU M[e]NINO: análise sociolinguística da média anterior /e/ em posição pretônica no português falado em Baião-Pará.

Abstract

Based on an anchor of the Theory of Variation and Change (WEINREICH, LABOV and HERZOG, 2006), this study has as its scope of analysis the variable behavior of the Pretonic front mid vowel /e/ in the spoken variety of the urban area of ​​Portuguese in Baião-PA. It aims to analyze the possible conditioners through linguistic and extralinguistic variables, the maintenance rule of the pretonic /e/ based on a stratified sample and in terms of variationist sociolinguistics. The corpus for analysis consisted of 12 informants stratified by age, sex and education. Data collection was carried out through interviews of personal experiences and the data were analyzed using the Goldvarb software package. As a result, we found that in Baião the maintenance of pretonic /e/ is the most frequent factor, since statistical data showed that, given the universe of 1,003 speech occurrences, in a percentage of 63% there was no heightening, weight relative of 0.630, while for the presence of heightening it was only 37%, relative weight of 0.370. The linguistic factors considered relevant to explain the absence of heightening of /e/ in pretonic position in Bahian speaking are: the low vowel (a) with a relative weight of 0.67, from the vocalic context of the tonic when the pretonic is nasal; the role of the onset consonant when dorsal with a relative weight of 0.82; as for the social factor, the most significant was in the second age group, with a relative weight of 0.54, taken as statistically significant for the absence of an increase in the dependent variable.