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Bisol, Leda – Language Variation and Change, 1989
Examines vowel harmony in the "Gaucho dialect" of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Informants from four areas of the state were studied: the capital city (Porto Alegre), the border region with Uruguay, and two areas of the interior populated by descendants of nineteenth-century immigrants from Europe, mainly Germans and…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Foreign Countries, Language Variation, Oral Language