<b>The deletion of the post-tonic non-final vowel for dialect speakers from Jaru, Rondônia State (Brazil)</b> - DOI: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v31i2.6202

Abstract

This essay exams the phenomenon of syncope in post-tonic non-final vowel in proparoxytones from 36 dialect speakers in an urban and rural community of Jaru, Rondônia State (Brazil).We follow the theoretic bases of Sociolinguistics, a theory that had William Labov as its precursor. Other theories that are also important to develop this project were: Prosodic Phonology and especially Metric Phonology. Therefore, it is a non-experimental research with a quantitative, descriptive focus and aptitude. The aim is to define whether the language, from the region where the research has done, is in variation or in linguistic change. It has been shown that there are several factors that influenced the phenomenon of syncope in post-tonic non-final vowel, and age level was the principal group that determined its occurrence, followed by the interview type and educational level. Besides the analysis of the obtained results and discussion, it has been proved how the syncope of the post-tonic vowel occurs, as well as the formation of the paroxytones.