The importance of Phonetic Studies in Geolinguistics for the description of Brazilian Portuguese
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https://doi.org/10.5433/2237-4876.2004v7n1p9Keywords:
Linguistic atlas, Portuguese language.Abstract
State linguistic atlases, though developed with different methodologies and publshed in different moments, have worked as a source for analytical-descriptive phonetic studies of the stages of the Portuguese language in Brazil. By having a synchronic perspective, we go back to works published in the 1990's that used as corpus the data from some state atlases: the Atlas Prévio dos Falares Baianos – APFB (Rossi, 1963), the Esboço de um Atlas Lingüístico de Minas Gerais – EALMG (Ribeiro et al., 1977), the Atlas Lingüístico da Paraíba (Aragão; Menezes, 1984), the Atlas Lingüístico de Sergipe (Ferreira et al., 1987) and the Atlas Lingüístico do Paraná (Aguilera, 1994).