MENINO, GURI OU PIÁ? UM ESTUDO DIATÓPICO NAS REGIÕES CENTRO-OESTE, SUDESTE E SUL A PARTIR DOS DADOS DO PROJETO ATLAS LINGUÍSTICO DO BRASIL

This paper uses as corpus of analysis the data collected by the Project Linguistic Atlas of Brazil team in three regions: Midwest, Southeast and South. These data refer to the country cities and to the capitals of each state; they were collected from informants who were selected according to establi...

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Published inAlfa Vol. 58; no. 2; pp. 463 - 497
Main Authors ROMANO, Valter Pereira, SEABRA, Rodrigo Duarte
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Portuguese
Published Sao Paulo Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP, Departamento de Estudos Linguísticos e Literários, Campus de Sáo José do Rio Preto 01.12.2014
Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho
Subjects
Children
Corpus analysis
Dialects
Dialetologia
Etymology
Grammatical number
LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Lexical semantics
Linguistic atlases
LINGUISTICS
Phonetics
Projeto ALiB
Questionnaires
Respondents
Semantic analysis
Variantes lexicais
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro Brazil
Variantes lexicais
Dialetologia
Lexical variants
Dialectology
ALiB Project
Projeto ALiB
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Summary:This paper uses as corpus of analysis the data collected by the Project Linguistic Atlas of Brazil team in three regions: Midwest, Southeast and South. These data refer to the country cities and to the capitals of each state; they were collected from informants who were selected according to established profiles. On this occasion, the objective was to discuss the diatopical distribution of lexical variants for question number 132-A very young child is called baby. However, when this small kid is 5-10 years old and also is a male person, how is the most commonly used term for calling him? - of Lexical-Semantic Questionnaire (COMITÊ NACIONAL DO PROJETO ALIB, 2001). The methodology involved descriptive and inferential analysis which were pertinent to the study. Thus, eight hypotheses were tested in order to analyze the behavior and the diatopical distribution of the five most productive variants in the set of answers. The main results indicated that those variants exhibited different behaviors in three different regions: (i) the variant menino showed homogeneous distribution in ten states; (ii) the lexical forms guri and piá had a heterogeneous distribution in the Southern region; (iii) variants of indian etymology (guri and piá) are more representative in the South and Midwest; (iv) there is a greater representation of variant moleque (African etymon) in the Southeast, especially in São Paulo and Minas Gerais.
ISSN:1981-5794
0002-5216
1981-5794
DOI:10.1590/1981-5794-1405-9