ASPECTOS SONOROS DA LÍNGUA POLONESA FALADA EM CRUZ MACHADO NO PARANÁ

Abstract

This dissertation contributes to the existing knowledge of the plurilingualism in Brazil. This paper aims to describe the sound aspects of the Polish language spoken in the town of Cruz Machado, in Paraná state. For over a century, the tradition of the language brought by its ancestors, whose system has changed in the distant homeland, remains strongly in communities of Polish descendants in the interior of Paraná. However, there are no descriptive studies about this immigration language in this locality, so our study is descriptive and is based on the acoustic theory of speech production (KENT and READ, 1992). We investigated the speech data of eight informants, registered by the means of a digital recorder and an unidirectional coupled microphone, with four men and four women, divided into two age groups: from 25 to 40 years and above 60 years, through the protocol of vehicle phrase reading (45 words inserted in the phrase-vehicle Powiedz _____ PRȨDKO - in English speak _____ fast) and over visual stimulus (26 images presented on slides). Speech description is done by analysis of the hearing and acoustic analysis, using the Praat software (BOERSMA and WEENINK, 2016). The result shows that the speakers maintain a system of stable polish, brought by their ancestors. In the encounters of tautossyllabic consonantal sounds, the introduction of vocalic epenthesis is detected in some data, only in the consonantal encounters composed by the nasal and lateral as in the word mleko [ˈmlɛkɔ] (milk) and the consonantal encounters between the fricative and lateral sound chleb [ˈxlep]. Besides the insertion of the vowel element, we observed the occurrence of the lenition phenomena in the encounters of tautossyllabic consonantal sounds, generating the simplification of the consonantal encounters. In the descriptions of the lateral in the Polish, whose configuration is as alveolar there was no variation, the informants produced as alveolar in all syllabic positions, as it is productive in the Polish language. In fricative sounds, analyzed by acoustic track of frequency value of the onset of noise, we verified a variability in the production by the speakers. We also investigated the possible loanwords, we again verified variations already existing in Polish language, as in the word dance, and neologisms based on the structure of the Portuguese words as the given Milija.