Rotacismo na cidade de Quedas do Iguaçu

Abstract

This research was elaborately based on Sociolinguistica Varacionista described by Labov (1972). The work developed in the city Quedas do Iguaçu-Pr, it brings in your body data analysis speech of 12 informants, aged 18-45 years and with more than 45 years, native of the city or that reside for a long time. The work has main objective is to investigate the occurrence of rhotacism phenomenon, the exchange of / l / for / r / in the pronunciation of words between the selected informants, checking the occurrence of phenomenon is linked to age or education of informants. In this work, we use some authors that are fundamental to the study of Sociolinguistica Quantitative or Variation Theory, thus the data were analyzed in light of these authors, who are Labov, Mollica, Tarallo and Bagno. At the end of the work found that the variable schooling and age it was important to the occurrence of rhotacism but was expected greater use of the phenomenon, because not all applied rhotacism as expected.