Revista de Estudos da Linguagem

9-30

Authors: Teresinha de Moraes Brenner

The Portuguese syllabic system contains a consonantal onset withtwo elements C2. The first one corresponds to an obstruent, plosiveor fricative, and the second to a tap or a lateral. This paper presentsan interesting configuration of the linguistic variational processrelated to the fishermen located in Florianópolis, S.C., Brazil. Themultilinear phonology exposes the phenomenon under theuniversal principles and the local parameters, recovering an unifiedand satisfactory description. A scientific explanation of thephonological system, theme of this article, asks for an evaluationof the research and a revision in the educational area, includingthe Applied Linguistics.

51-68

Authors: Aléxia Teles Duchowny; Maria Olívia de Quadros Saraiva

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the presence and theconsistency of criteria in the Glossary of the Cantigas de SantaMaria, edited by Walter Mettmann in 1972. The Cantigas, compiledin the end of the thirteenth century by Afonso X and hiscollaborators from Toledo, are one of the most extensive collectionsof poetry, iconography and music in Medieval Portuguese.Cambraia (2000) and Cunha (1966) were taken into account, dueto their regularity and meticulousness. Emphasis was given to theanalysis on the way the author deals with the extent of theGlossary, the constitution of its articles and the idiomaticexpressions. The absence of explicit norms to elaborate theGlossary is a serious deficiency of this edition, forcing its readerto deduce these norms. It is not our intention to find solutions toall the omissions found in the Glossary, but to point out a bodyof clear and coherent norms.

95-124

Authors: Cláudia Nascimento Guaraldo Justi; Francis Ricardo dos Reis Justi

Phonological awareness has been pointed out as one of themost important variables in the development of reading andwriting. The present study investigated the effects of phonologicalawareness training in the development of kindergarten’s writingskills. The training was applied to 20 kindergartens, which wereallocated to 2 experimental groups and 1 control group. In oneexperimental group training was developed through a computerprogram, and in another experimental group training wasdeveloped through the use of cards. Statistical analysis andmeasures of effect size (d) demonstrated the training efficacy inwriting development. This efficacy was independent of thetraining method (computer or cards). These results suggest theneed of developing phonological awareness skills inkindergartens.

149-174

Authors: Ana Carolina Vilela; Luisa Godoy; Thaïs Cristófaro Silva

This article evaluates and discusses cases of truncation in BrazilianPortuguese (BP). A general evaluation of truncated forms in BP ispresented within traditional grammatical approaches, and we alsoconsider some proposals presented in manuals of morphology.Finally, we consider some articles that focus on theoretical issuesrelated to truncation. In order to have a better understanding oftruncation in BP we organized an experiment to evaluate over ahundred truncated forms. Results from our experiment indicatethat truncated forms tend to follow general patterns, althoughsuch patterns are not categorical. We also distinguish truncatedforms from cases of reduction of lexical items. Our results offerinsights for future analyses on truncation and reduced forms inBP and may also contribute to the discussion of the interactionbetween phonology and morphology.

203-230

Authors: Maria Carlota Rosa

This paper discusses a continuously repeated statement aboutthe traditional grammatical descriptions which says that theyreduced the structures of all languages to the structure of Latin.The discussion is based on the analysis of three languagedescriptions written in the 17th century by Jesuitical missionaries.From these grammatical works a different sense for the expression“identical to Latin” emerges: a set of structural aspects to whichthe grammarian could not fail to give attention.

261-281

Authors: Ulla Fix; Hans Peter Wieser

This work will investigate the more and more frequently observedphenomenon of boundary transgressions that one can find inthe world of non-literary and literary texts in forms that utilizetypological intertextuality. There will be a discussion of the playwith patterns, the norms and conventions in the area of textualgenres, especially, by means of montage, the mixture and breachingof textual patterns that are employed in a contrastive sensecompared to the normal use, in order to attract the attention ofan audience that is exposed to an abundance of texts and inorder to seduce the receptor into reading the particular text underdiscussion. Forms and types will be shown, as well as abundanceand variety of those breaches of the “canon”. Finally, what happensto the signs in that ambivalence between canon and dissolutionof canon during the process of reception will be shown; that is, aspecific kind of semiose will be observed – namely, a semiose ofalienation that is bound to those non-conventional texts.