As vogais nasais antes de consoantes orais na língua indígena brasileira Yaathe

Abstract

In this paper, the purpose is to make a description of the realization environment of nasal vowels that precede oral consonants in Yaathe. It is proposed, then, to observe which nasal vowels are possible, in which types of syllables they occur, and how the stress behaves in these environments. The theoretical precepts of this paper encompass the Linguistics description that proposes a study of languages in which the description and analysis are done to understand the grammatical organization of the language, there is also the involvement of the linguistic function that seeks to comprehend the functioning of the found realizations. To develop this work, the research methodology commonly used in linguistic description research was used, which is the collection, transcription, processing, and elicitation of data that were later used for analysis. This study presents four chapters. In these moments we talked about the studied language and its people, we also bring theoretical and methodological information which gave support to our study. It is also made a review about some points of Yaathe’s phonetics and phonology. Last, the proposed analysis describing the environment in which the nasal vowels before oral consonants happen is made. To cover Yaathe, we brought researchers such as Costa (1999), Cabral (2009), Silva (2011), Silva (2016), and Dias (2017). Considering the theoretical precepts that support our work, we brought Davenport and Hannahs (1998), Borba (2008), Hayes (2009), Bezerra and Reinaldo (2013), and Silva (2015).