CASE STUDY ON DELETE THE ROTHIC IN INFINITIVE

Abstract

From the variation perspective, language is understood as essentially variable, thus this study, we intend to unravel how is the organization of linguistic variation. In Brazil, for many years the Portuguese, brought from Portugal, and the indigenous languages lived side by side as communication languages. With the end of the slave trade in the following centuries, language training had contributions coming of immigration from around the world, among them Germany, Italy and Spain. This intense contact between languages constituted the Brazilian society. Based on the reality of the talk of Brazil, this paper presents a case study about the erasure of post-vowel rhotic in infinitives. From the analysis of the talk, the objective is to investigate the linguistic and extralinguistic factors that motivate the realization of the phenomenon.

Keywords

• sociolinguística variacionista
• rede de comunicação
• apagamento do rótico.