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Fonética, Fonologia, Processos Fonológicos E Morfofonológicos D UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO DE JANEIRO Glauber Romling da Silva FONOLOGIA DA LÍNGUA PARESI-HALITI (ARAWAK) Faculdade de Letras 2009 SILVA, Glauber Romling da. Fonologia da língua Paresi-Haliti (Arawak)/ Glauber Romling da Silva. - Rio de Janeiro: UFRJ/ FL, 2009. 22, 319 f.: il.; 31 cm. Orientadora: Bruna Franchetto Dissertação (mestrado) – UFRJ/ FL/ Programa de Pós-graduação em Lingüística, 2009. Referências Bibliográficas: f. 240-245 1. Línguas Indígenas Brasileiras. 2. Fonologia. 3. Lingüística – Dissertação. I. Fonologia da Língua Paresi-Haliti (Arawak). II Dissertação (Mestrado – UFRJ/ FL, Departamento de Lingüística). FONOLOGIA DA LÍNGUA PARESI-HALITI (ARAWAK) Glauber Romling da Silva Dissertação de Mestrado apresentada ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Lingüística da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro como quesito para a obtenção do Título de Mestre em Lingüística Orientadora: Profa. Doutora Bruna Franchetto Rio de Janeiro Fevereiro de 2009 Fonologia da Língua Paresi-Haliti (Arawak) Glauber Romling da Silva Orientadora: Professora Doutora Bruna Franchetto Dissertação de Mestrado submetida ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Lingüística da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, como parte dos requisitos necessários para a obtenção do título de Mestre em Lingüística. Examinada por: _________________________________________________ Presidente, Professora Doutora Bruna Franchetto, PPGAS/MN/UFRJ _________________________________________________ Professor Doutor Marcus Antônio Rezende Maia – FL/UFRJ _________________________________________________ Doutora Kristine Sue Stenzel – DA/MN/UFRJ (Pesquisador Associado) _________________________________________________ Professora Doutora Marcia Damaso Vieira – FL/UFRJ, Suplente _________________________________________________ Professora Doutora Yonne de Freitas Leite – Universidade Gama Filho, Suplente Em: / / 2009 Rio de Janeiro Fevereiro de 2009 Dedico esta dissertação à minha família e ao povo paresi “Sócrates: — Então, é a mesma coisa conhecimento e sabedoria? Teeteto: — Sim. Sócrates: — Eis o que me suscita dúvidas...” (Platão, Teeteto) AGRADECIMENTOS Agradeço ao povo paresi-haliti das comunidades do Hohako (Formoso) e Korehete (JM) pela hospitalidade com que me receberam em minhas viagens de campo, em especial a Antonio Zonizare, Justino Zomozokae, Geovani Kezokenaece, Angelina Naizokaero, Genivaldo Zezokaece, Adavilson Zonizokie, Dona Agostinha, Manezinho, abebe Kezokero, João Titi Akonozokae e Maria Mulata Zoloizakaero, além de todos os outros que contribuíram para o aprendizado de sua língua. Agradeço a meus pais, Ronaldo Fernandes da Silva e Sonia Cristina Romling da Silva, por terem sempre acreditado em mim durante a minha jornada e por terem prezado sempre pela minha educação acima de tudo. Agradeço ao meu irmão, Glauco Romling da Silva, pelas discussões epistemológicas e apoio. Sem vocês eu não seria nada. Agradeço a Priscilla Alves de Moura pelo carinho e paciência com que encarou esses dois anos de mestrado ao meu lado. Agradeço à minha orientadora, Bruna Franchetto, por ter acreditado em minha capacidade como lingüista. Agradeço por ter me acolhido em seu grupo de pesquisa e pela sua generosidade sem precedentes, reconhecida por todos, em fazer de tudo para me ajudar em todas as etapas da pesquisa. Com você eu aprendi o que é fazer pesquisa e o que é comprometimento profissional incansável. Agradeço a Mara Santos, uma verdadeira co-orientadora, que sempre esclareceu com calma e generosidade as minhas dúvidas sobre lingüística desde os tempos da Iniciação Científica e por ter me ensinado a trabalhar com o ELAN e o Toolbox. Uma pessoa e uma lingüista fora do comum. Alguém com quem se aprende muito. Agradeço a Aline, a mais nova integrante da equipe dirigida por Bruna Franchetto, por vir trabalhar conosco e mostrar capacidade para continuar em outros ciclos de formação. Precisamos de novos lingüistas. Agradeço a Rosana Costa e a Suzi Lima, por terem participado de momentos importantes de minha ainda iniciante vida profissional como professor. Postura ética, clareza de idéias, serenidade e competência são bons exemplos a serem seguidos. Agradeço à professora Elsa Gomez-Imbert por salientar a importância do domínio da sílaba para a análise dos processos em Paresi, pelo dia de trabalho concedido para discutir meus dados e pela carta de recomendação ao Endangered Languages Documentation Program da School of Oriental and African Studies da London University (ELDP/SOAS), carta que me ajudou a obter recursos para a documentação do Paresi. Agradeço ao professor Didier Demolin pelas preciosas informações em fonética acústica que foram importantes em vários momentos de minha descrição. Agradeço à professora Yonne Leite pelos comentários que permitiram o desenvolvimento desta fonologia. Desde já, ressalto que quaisquer erros ou omissões são de minha inteira responsabilidade. Agradeço às professoras Aniela Improta França e Miriam Lemle, bem como a meus colegas do CLIPSEN, por terem me acolhido durante boa parte de minha Iniciação Científica em seu grupo de pesquisa. Lá aprendi muito sobre lingüística e devo parte fundamental de minha formação a essa época. Agradeço a Manuela Colamarco, minha amiga de curso, por ter me ensinado como se faz um experimento em fonética acústica. Mais uma vez, erros ou omissões são de minha inteira responsabilidade. Agradeço a Carol e Graça Freire por terem me acolhido com hospitalidade irretocável em Belo Horizonte quando da minha apresentação na ABRALIN em 2007. Agradeço a Vincent Carelli e Olívia pela agradável estadia em Olinda na ocasião da Conferência de Línguas Amazônicas em 2008. Agradeço aos funcionários da FUNAI de Tangará da Serra, em especial ao Martins, por terem facilitado meu trabalho desde as minhas primeiras viagens de campo. Agradeço à Giba por ter me ajudado a conseguir fazer com rapidez os exames necessários para a obtenção de autorização para ingresso em área indígena. Agradeço a Thelma, minha mais nova ‘amiga recente de longa data’, por me apoiar e dar forças nesses primeiros passos de minha carreira. Agradeço aos demais professores da banca, Marcus Maia, Kristine Stenzel e Marcia Damaso, por aceitarem participar desta etapa. Agradeço, em especial, à professora Kristine Stenzel pela outra carta de recomendação em apoio ao meu projeto encaminhado ao ELDP/SOAS. Agradeço ao CNPq pelo suporte financeiro durante o mestrado. RESUMO Silva, Glauber Romling da. FONOLOGIA DA LÍNGUA PARESI-HALITI (ARAWAK). Orientadora: Professora Doutora Bruna Franchetto. Rio de Janeiro, 2009. Dissertação (Mestrado em Lingüística) – Faculdade de Letras, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. 2009. Este trabalho apresenta uma descrição preliminar da fonética e da fonologia da variante majoritária da língua Paresi-Haliti (Arawak). A língua Paresi-Haliti conta com 1649 falantes que vivem em 30 aldeias em 10 áreas indígenas no estado de Mato Grosso, Brasil. O primeiro capítulo introduz a forma de organização da dissertação, fornece informações etnográficas sobre os Paresi e sobre o processo da pesquisa, comenta trabalhos anteriores e oferece um panorama das línguas da família arawak. O segundo capítulo provê um inventário dos segmentos fonéticos e uma lista de dados transcritos foneticamente. O terceiro capítulo apresenta um inventário fonêmico, comentando as principais alternâncias, e analisa os principais processos fonológicos e morfofonológicos observados no estudo. A abordagem destes últimos é baseada no Modelo de Geometria de Traços de Clements & Hume (1995). Para uma primeira abordagem da prosódia, utilizamos o Modelo da Teoria Métrica de Idsardi (1992). O quarto capítulo dá um pequeno esquete da fonética e da fonologia da variante minoritária do Paresi-Haliti. Em anexo, apresentamos uma proposta ortográfica e uma amostra do corpus de dados analisados para esta dissertação. Palavras-chave: Línguas Indígenas – Arawak – Paresi – Fonologia; Autor: Glauber Romling da Silva; Orientadora: Professora Doutora Bruna Franchetto; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. ABSTRACT Silva, Glauber Romling da. PHONOLOGY OF THE PARESI-HALITI LANGUAGE (ARAWAK). Advisor: Doctor Bruna Franchetto. Rio de Janeiro, 2009. Dissertation (Master in Linguistics) – Faculdade de Letras, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. 2009. This dissertation intends to present a preliminary description of the phonetics and phonology of the major variant of the Paresi-Haliti language (Arawak). The Paresi-Haliti has 1649 speakers living in 30 villages scattered in 10 indigenous areas in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. The first chapter introduces the structure of this dissertation, with ethnographical information about the Paresi people and the research process; earlier linguistic works on Paresi are commented and an overview of the Arawak family is given. The second chapter provides the inventory of the phonetic segments and a list of phonetically transcribed data. The third chapter presents the phonemic inventory and the procedures adopted in order to obtain contrasts, allophony, alternations and distribution. In this chapter, the main phonological and morpho-phonological processes are described and analyzed. The approach is based on the Feature Geometry Model proposed by Clements & Hume (1995). The Metric Theory of Idsard (1992) is used for a first approach of the prosody. The fourth chapter gives a sketch of the phonetics and phonology of the Paresi-Haliti minor variant. A proposal of a practical orthography and the corpus of data analyzed in this dissertation are included
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