Nasalização vocálica no português urbano de São Tomé e Príncipe

Abstract

Este artigo examina comparativamente a nasalidade vocálica em duas variedades de português faladas em São Tomé e Príncipe: o português santomense (PST) e o português principense (PP). Pautados na análise da duração e dos formantes dos segmentos nasais (ṽN), nasalizados (ṽ.N) e orais (V), observamos dois processos de nasalização distintos nessas variedades: a nasalidade vocálica tautossilábica, engatilhada por uma coda nasal, e a nasalidade vocálica heterossilábica, promovida por um onset nasal. Ambos os processos decorrem do espraiamento regressivo do traço [+nasal] para V, porém, enquanto a nasalidade tautossilábica é obrigatória, distingue significado e ocasiona o apagamento da consoante nasal em coda, resultando na duração alongada de ṽN em relação à V (48% para o PST e 60% para o PP), a nasalidade heterossilábica não ocorreu em pretônicas, é opcional em tônicas e mantém a consoante nasal em onset, refletindo, consequentemente, na duração de ṽ.N, a qual é equivalente à V.

Nasality triggered by /ɲ/ in two portuguese varieties of Sao Tome and Principe

“…The nasalization process in these cases is mandatorily implemented, occurring independently of the vowel quality and the word stress (Wetzels, 1997). Even though Araujo and Balduino (2019) proposed a general analysis for nasalized vowels, there is no mention to the behavior of vowel nasalization triggered by the palatal nasal in their study. To expand the studies on vowel nasality in Portuguese, we aim to examine vowel nasality triggered by the palatal nasal in PST and PP.…”

“…Thus, we aim here to discuss the status of nasality triggered by /ɲ/ in two urban varieties: the Portuguese spoken in the city of São Tomé (PST) and the Portuguese spoken in the city of Santo Antonio, Príncipe Island, (PP). Based on studies such as Balduino (2018) and Araujo and Balduino (2019), we propose a phonological analysis of oral and nasalized vowels by investigating the possibility of nasalization trigged by the nasal palatal /ɲ/.…”

“…Nasality in PST and PP has been studied by Balduino (2018), and Araujo and Balduino (2019). Based on the duration and the formants of nasal (ṽN), nasalized (ṽ.N) and oral (V) segments, Araujo and Balduino (2019) related both nasalization processes in PST and PP: tautosyllabic nasality, triggered by a nasal coda, and heterosyllabic nasality, promoted by a nasal onset.…”

“…In the literature, recent studies such as those of Gonçalves (2010Gonçalves ( , 2016, Figueiredo (2010), Christofoletti (2013), Agostinho (2016), Bouchard (2017), Brandão et al (2017), Balduino. Bandeiras and Freitas (2017), Balduino (2018;, Braga (2018), Nascimento (2018a;2018b), Passos (2018), Araujo and Balduino (2019), Gomes (2019), Gomes, Alves and Fernandes (2019), Santiago and Agostinho (2020), Agostinho, Soares and Mendes (2020), Vieira and Balduino (2020), and Santiago et al (to be published) can be cited. Most of these works have aimed to describe PST.…”

“…2 We analyze the phonotactic behavior of vowels in a phonetic environment that could or could not trigger nasality and discuss whether nasality triggered by /ɲ/ suggests ambisyllabic structures in these varieties. Although the existence of nasalized vowels in PST and PP may be the result of a phenomenon of nasality (see Balduino, 2018), the phonological role of /ɲ/ in nasalization was not considered in works such as Balduino (2018) and Araujo and Balduino (2019). In this study, we aim to fill some gaps related to the description of nasality in these varieties by analyzing phonological environments capable of conditioning nasality.…”