Situação linguística do português em São Tomé e Príncipe

Santiago, Ana Maria; Agostinho, Ana Lívia

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“…The choice of Portuguese as an emblem of the nation was made on heavily ideological decisions. On the one hand, Portuguese was associated with national unity, modernity, European-ness, and the assumption that it would facilitate the creation of bonds with the international community (Espírito Santo 1983). The creole languages, on the other hand, were deprived of such qualities, and were rather associated with highly pejorative beliefs.…”

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Becoming Monolingual: The Impact of Language Ideologies on the Loss of Multilingualism on São Tomé Island

Bouchard

2019

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This article discusses the loss of the creole languages on São Tomé Island and the societal move from multilingualism to monolingualism in Portuguese. It argues that recognizing the ideologies attached to these languages is key in understanding the language shift, but also the processes leading toward monolingualism. This qualitative study is based on three main theories: Language as social practice, language ideology, and monoglot standardization. Data comes from ethnographic fieldwork and sociolinguistic interviews with 56 speakers from the capital of São Tomé and Príncipe. I argue that the existence of multilingualism on São Tomé Island is not valued at a societal level because of the pejorative ideologies that have been held about the creole languages since colonial times. Also, the use of the creole languages stood as a problem for the creation of a unified Santomean nation, as the different racial groups on the islands had their own creole. Results show how ideologies about the Portuguese language and its association with national unity, modernity, and European-ness favored its expansion on São Tomé Island and a move toward monolingualism.

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Becoming Monolingual: The Impact of Language Ideologies on the Loss of Multilingualism on São Tomé Island

Bouchard

2019

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“…In PST and PP there are seven oral vowels, as Table 1 shows (cf. Christofoletti;Araujo, 2018;Santiago, 2019;, to be published). Nasality triggered by /ɲ/ in two Portuguese varieties of Sao tome and Principe Amanda Macedo Balduino non-final unstressed syllables (cf.…”

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“…Different varieties of Portuguese spoken in STP have distinct structures compared to European (EP) and Brazilian Portuguese (BP), such as the production of diphthongs (Christofoletti, 2013), rhotics (Agostinho, 2016;Bouchard, 2017;Brandão et al, 2017;Brandão;Paula, 2018;Agostinho;Soares;Mendes, 2020), vowels (Gomes, 2018;Rocha and Nascimento, 2018;Santiago, 2019;, to be published), and different phonological processes Bandeiras;Freitas, 2017;Balduino, 2018Balduino, , 2019Braga, 2018;Nascimento, 2018;Balduino, 2019;Vieira;. 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).…”

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“…Most of these works have aimed to describe PST. There are, however, few studies on PP (see Agostinho 2016;Balduino 2018Balduino , 2019Balduino 2019;Santiago 2019;Agostinho;Soares;Mendes 2020;Santiago et al to be published). Therefore, this study is justified for it contributes with a description and a phonological analysis of these varieties, thus expanding the literature on nasality and linguistic analysis of PST and PP.…”

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

Balduino

2020

Revista Diadorim

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This study describes and analyzes the nasality triggered by /ɲ/ in the Portuguese spoken in São Tomé (PST) and in the Portuguese spoken in Príncipe (PP). PST and PP are Portuguese varieties from São Tomé and Príncipe (STP) that present particular linguistic characteristics. Considering the context of linguistic contact into which PST and PP are inserted, we aim to (i) propose a phonological analysis of nasality triggered by /ɲ/ in PST and PP, and (ii) investigate the presence of ambisyllabic structures. Based on Autosegmental Phonology (Goldsmith 1976;1990) as the phonological theory and laboratory phonology (Ohala, 1995) as the methodology and considering the phonotactic analysis of vowels, we observed that nasality can be triggered by /ɲ/, a nasal consonant that occupies an ambisyllabic structure. Thus, the palatal nasal nasalizes left contiguous vowels in stressed and unstressed syllables. This nasalization process is possible because /ɲ/ is in coda, resulting in a CVN syllable structure and triggering tautosyllabic nasality. Even though it is optional, the nasality triggered by /ɲ/ occurs independently of the vowel quality and the word stress, as described for BP (Wetzels, 1997).

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“…Em STP, circulam diferentes variedades vernáculas da língua portuguesa. Além de variedades urbanas, como o português santomense (PST) e o português principense (PP) (BALDUINO, 2019;SANTIAGO, 2019;SANTIAGO;AGOSTINHO, 2020), há registros de variedades como o português de Almoxarife (PA), empregado na costa da ilha de São Tomé, e do português dos Tongas (PT), falado na comunidade da roça Monte Café (BAXTER, 2018;FIGUEIREDO 2010;ROUGÉ, 1992). Ademais, outras variedades não registradas, como o português angolar, falado na região dos Angolares, e o português falado pelos descendentes cabo-verdianos, também são observadas.…”

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Apagamento do rótico em coda no Português Santomense (PST)

Vieira

Balduino

2024

Rev. Est. Ling.

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The goal of this paper is to analyze rhotic deletion in coda in Santomean Portuguese (PST), a Portuguese variety spoken in Sao Tome and Principe. This process was analyzed based on Variationist Sociolinguistics. Quantitative analyses have been carried out by softwares RStudio and Rbrul. Thus, we consider social (sex, age and education level) and linguistic (grammatical class, syllable stress, position in morphological word and quality of preceding vowels) variables that might favor or not the phenomenon. By examining 1523 rhotic occurrences in coda, we verified r-deletion in 56,53% of the data. The most significant variable is Segmental Position with the highest rate of r-deletion in word-final syllables (P. R. 71). Then, the sample was divided into two samples separately analyzed: 712 occurrences in word-medial coda and 811 occurrences in word-final coda. In word-medial coda, 32,6% of rhotics are deleted . The highest rates of loss are associated to elementary school (P.R. .62) and women (P.R. .59). In word-final coda, 77.5% of rhotics are deleted, Speakers with elementary school (P.R. .75) and younger speakers (P.R. .76) are more likely to delete the rhotic in coda. Considering Grammatical Class, r-deletion is favored in verbs (

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Situação linguística do português em São Tomé e Príncipe

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Becoming Monolingual: The Impact of Language Ideologies on the Loss of Multilingualism on São Tomé Island

Becoming Monolingual: The Impact of Language Ideologies on the Loss of Multilingualism on São Tomé Island

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

Apagamento do rótico em coda no Português Santomense (PST)

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