Estudo de curvas entonatórias do português brasileiro

Abstract

This dissertation is situated on the Portuguese Language area, delimited to prose aspects of the intoned curves of Brazilian Portuguese. It has as a theme the quantitative and qualitative descriptions of the intoned curves of the idiomatic pronunciation in Brazil. The general objective of this study is to contribute to the teaching of Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation to foreigners, by means of propitiating its "unforeignerness". It has as specific objectives: 1) to present what are the intoned curves that characterise the pronunciation of presenters of TVGlobo's Jornal Nacional, through the quantitative criteria; 2) to describe and explain intoned-type phenomenon, through qualitative criteria, of the pronunciation of presenters of TVGlobo's Jornal Nacional; 3) to differentiate the enunciative intoned curves, by means of considering the discursive production conditions, modifiers of the pronunciation of the presenters of TVGlobo's Jornal Nacional, considering as a focus of idiomatic irradiation, in Brazil. The analysis procedure of this research was descriptive-explicative, being the collected data through recordings of the sonorous occurrences of presenters of TVGlobo's Jornal Nacional pronunciation. The obtained results indicate that: 1) quantitatively, the intoned curve follows the syntactic rules of the phrasal sintagmas and; 2) qualitatively, the intoned curves are governed by morphophonological, phono-syntactic and phono-stylistic rules. It is concluded that, for the teaching of Portuguese as a foreign language, the acquisition of pronunciation is directly related to the question of idiom and that, ideologically, it establishes itself as a focus of linguistic irradiation. Thus, the major difficulty of foreigner students is on the learning phase for not succeeding in accomplishing such curves, for Portuguese presents a very high variation of intoned curves, making it highly melodic