Aquisição do português por imigrantes haitianos: um levantamento de aspectos fonético/fonológicos

Abstract

Motivated by the massive presence of Haitian immigrants living in the region of Pato Branco - PR, this work has as main theme to collect data on the process of acquisition/learning of the Portuguese language by Haitian immigrants. More specifically, it was intended to present a picture of the phonetic/phonological difficulties that the informants usually present, considering the different phonemes found in the Haitian Creole and Portuguese. For this, three instruments were developed capable of assisting in the speech collection of six Haitian immigrants who, accepting to participate in the research voluntarily, together with the contribution of scholars and theorists of the area, provided the data that substantiated the analysis of this work. From this and with the data of the Sociolinguistic Questionnaire completed by the participants of the research, considerations were made in order to elucidate the causes and possibilities of exchanges of phonemes that the Haitians presented at the moment of the speech collected. As a main result it was concluded that the length of stay in a foreign country is not always the factor that determines the fluency in the Additional Language. In addition, it was found that the exchange of l by r is the most recurrent phenomenon in his speeches.