Um estudo de fonologia da lingua Makuxi (karib) : inter-relações das teorias fonologicas

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2004

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The present thesis is a new approach of the Makuxi (Karib) language phonology, spoken by an Indian population of about eighteen thousand people in the Brazilian state of Roraima and in the neighbor territory of Guyana. Searching for a deeper analysis, beyond Phonemics, this study is inspired in the phonological tradition of the School of Prague and adopts the representational model of the Features Geometry. The result is the ?inter-relations of the phonological theories?, by the correspondence that it establishes between the concepts adopted by the classical phonological theories and the auto-segmental model (features geometry). Looking for an explanation for the existing phenomenon in the Makuxi language, which has been interpreted as a voicing implementation (that reaches the obstruent segments after long vowel, nasal or glottal segments), this thesis establishes a correspondence between lenes/fortes concepts of the classical phonology to which constitutes the SV (Spontaneous Voicing) node of the auto-segmental model. In our analysis, SV reveals to be essential to explain what we understand as a lenition process justifying the participation of this feature node in the geometry of the sonorant archi-phonemes oral / and nasal /N/, allowing to change the interpretation of lenition to the one of voicing implementation of the consonants in focus. The reasoning that made us discard the idea of a process of voicing, had led us to recognize the phonological existence of a consonant ?, characterized by the features [+aprox] and [ SV ] ? distinct from the glottal obstruent specified by [? approx ] and [?voice] (Laryngeal) ? whose presence is disclosed by the lenition of fortes consonants /p, t, k, s/, that become lenes [ b, d, g, z ]

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indios macuxi familia karib indios - linguas - fonologia

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