%0 Journal Article
%T Comparando as consoantes das l¨ªnguas Tapaj¨²na e Suy¨¢
%A Rodrigues
%A C¨ªntia Karla Coelho
%A Ferreira-Silva
%A Mar¨ªlia de Nazar¨¦
%J Alfa : Revista de Lingu¨ªstica (S£¿o Jos¨¦ do Rio Preto)
%D 2011
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%R 10.1590/S1981-57942011000200011
%X this study investigates historical and comparative aspects of tapaj¨²na (j¨º family) consonantal features, comparing cognates between tapaj¨²na and suy¨¢ (also of the j¨º family) with the goal of specifying similarities and differences in an effort to describe the reconstruction of the macro-j¨º stock. the comparative method was applied to detect correspondences between the languages. data from tapaj¨²na and suy¨¢ were compared to proto-j¨º data, as reconstructed by davis (1966). there are few differences between tapaj¨²na and suy¨¢. where there are variations in identical phonetic-phonological contexts, the question of speaker age arises, since, for example, pre-nasalized consonants occur in the speech of young people, whereas older tapaj¨²na speakers use only nasalized consonants.
%K consonant
%K historical comparative method
%K tapaj¨²na
%K suy¨¢
%K phonetic
%K phonological
%K consonant
%K cognates.
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