Variation and change in the history of the stressed mid vowels of the Portuguese language

an interpretation of the rhymes of the poetry from the past

Authors

  • Juliana Simões Fonte Fundação para o Vestibular da Universidade Estadual Paulista (VUNESP). São Paulo – SP – Brasil.
  • Gladis Massini-Cagliari Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Faculdade de Ciências e Letras. Araraquara – SP – Brasil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/1981-5794-e17095

Keywords:

Stressed mid vowels, rhymes, history of Portuguese, variation, change

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the pronunciation of the stressed mid vowels in Portuguese of the 13h, 15h, 16h and 17h centuries, through the observation of the rhymes of the poetry from that period. The corpora comprise the Cantigas de Santa Maria by Alfonso X, the Cancioneiro Geral by Garcia de Resende, Os Lusíadas by Camões and the sonnets by Gregório de Matos. Knowing that the ancient writing, like the present, had only two graphemes to represent phonemes concerning stressed mid vowels of Portuguese, the possibilities and impossibilities of rhyme between mid vowels represented by identical graphemes were evaluated in this work. The results of this research suggest that there was constant phonetic variation in the speech of the stressed mid vowels of the Portuguese language, between the 15th and 17th centuries (at least), and that, in some cases, this variation resulted in a change, throughout the history of the language.

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Author Biography

Juliana Simões Fonte, Fundação para o Vestibular da Universidade Estadual Paulista (VUNESP). São Paulo – SP – Brasil.

Graduada em Letras pela FCL/UNESP, câmpus de Araraquara, onde também obteve o título de Mestre e Doutora em Linguística e Língua Portuguesa. Atualmente, é Pós-Doutoranda e professora colaboradora no departamento de Linguística dessa mesma instituição. Ao longo de sua carreira acadêmica, tem desenvolvido pesquisas na área de Fonologia e Linguística Histórica.

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Published

05/10/2023

How to Cite

FONTE, J. S.; MASSINI-CAGLIARI, G. Variation and change in the history of the stressed mid vowels of the Portuguese language: an interpretation of the rhymes of the poetry from the past. ALFA: Revista de Linguística, São Paulo, v. 67, 2023. DOI: 10.1590/1981-5794-e17095. Disponível em: https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/alfa/article/view/17095. Acesso em: 30 jun. 2024.

Issue

Vol. 67 (2023)

Section

Papers

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