Abstract

BRISOLARA, Luciene Bassols; MATZENAUER, Carmen Lúcia Barreto  and  SEARA, Izabel Christine. THE SPANISH VOWEL /a/ IN NASAL CONTEXT AND ITS PRODUCTION BY BRAZILIANS. Lingüística [online]. 2019, vol.35, n.1, pp.11-34.  Epub June 01, 2019. ISSN 2079-312X.  https://doi.org/10.5935/2079-312x.20190002.

This research aimed to investigate the acquisition of the vowel /a/ of the Spanish language, in nasal context, by Brazilian students. For this investigation, data were collected from six students of a Letters Course with emphasis in Portuguese-Spanish, and six native Spanish women. The data were submitted to an acoustic analysis and compared with those found in the literature for Portuguese and Spanish. The vowel /aN/ in the CVN context, in which there is no vowel nasalization, and in the NVN or VN context, in which there is nasalization, manifests itself as a nasal vowel in Brazilian productions, while in Uruguayan productions it manifests as oral. The results suggest that the Brazilian women use their LM. This was evidenced by the values ​​presented by F1 and F3. Regarding the total absolute duration, the vowel /aN/ was always greater than the vowel /a/ in the data of the Brazilian learners of Spanish and also of the Uruguayan ones

Keywords : vocalic nasalization; acoustic phonetics; acquisition of Spanish by Brazilians.

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