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The Serial Effect on Internal and External Variables.
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Scherre, Maria Marta Pereira; Naro, Anthony J. – Language Variation and Change, 1992
A study of concord phenomena in Rio de Janeiro spoken Portuguese found that, in the serial context, the linguistic system is so highly constrained that external, and even internal, influences are blocked. Authors conclude that strong constraints should be identified and further studies undertaken to understand the interplay of the diverse forces…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Language Variation, Portuguese
Directionality in Linguistic Change and Acquisition.
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Gomes, Christina Abreu – Language Variation and Change, 1999
Focuses on the directionality observed in the processes of change and acquisition of the prepositions that replaced Latin cases in the speech of Rio de Janeiro and in the contact Portuguese spoken by Brazilian Indians in the region of Xingu. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations
Vowel Harmony: A Variable Rule in Brazilian Portuguese.
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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
Filling Syntactic Boundaries in Spoken Brazilian Portuguese.
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Tarallo, Fernando; Kato, Mary A. – Language Variation and Change, 1993
Results are presented on the grammar of spoken Brazilian Portuguese, with focus on the syntactic boundaries of the main constituents of an utterance. Major differences are found both in the distribution of filling by syntactic adjuncts versus discourse elements and in the susceptibility of different syntactic boundaries to be filled. (Contains 33…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Demography, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Change without Change.
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Naro, Anthony; Gorski, Edair; Fernandes, Eulalia – Language Variation and Change, 1999
Discusses a shift in the distribution of first person plural pronouns, as well as changes in the patterns of use of the corresponding verb inflections, in spoken Brazilian Portuguese across four generations of speakers from Rio de Janeiro. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, Language Usage
The Variable Deletion of Unstressed Vowels in Faialense Portuguese.
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Silva, David James – Language Variation and Change, 1997
Conversational data from a native speaker of European Portuguese from the island of Faial were analyzed to determine segmental and prosodic contexts favoring unstressed vowel deletion. Factors such as rhythmic preservation, syllable structure, and functional load are discounted in the analysis, suggesting vowel deletion is essentially a word-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, Language Variation, Linguistic Theory
Disfluencies in the Analysis of Speech Data.
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Naro, Anthony Julius; Scherre, Maria Marta Pereira – Language Variation and Change, 1996
Discusses a study of concord phenomena in spoken Brazilian Portuguese. Findings indicate the presence of disfluencies, including apparent corrections, in about 15% of the relevant tokens in the corpus of recorded speech data. It is concluded that speech is not overly laden with errors, and there is nothing in the data to mislead the language…
Descriptors: Classification, Discourse Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), Error Correction
Subject Omission and Functional Compensation: Evidence from Written Brazilian Portuguese.
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Paredes Silva, Vera Lucia – Language Variation and Change, 1993
Evidence from a sample of informal written language (personal correspondence) shows that the most important constraints on pronoun usage in subject position are discourse-based. The quantitative analysis supports the hypothesis that pronoun usage is "functional" since semantically relevant information is preserved in surface structure.…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Letters (Correspondence)
Discourse Markers in the Spoken Portuguese of Rio de Janeiro.
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de Olveira e Silva, Giselle M.; de Macedo, Alzira Tavares – Language Variation and Change, 1992
A study analyzed four major classes of discourse marker in Brazilian Portuguese: "ne" and other requests for feedback; "ai," a sequential connector; "ah, bom," and other turn initiators; and "assim," a marker of explanation. Distribution in various discourse functions and sociodemographic conditioning, and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English