ABSTRACT
The study analyzes the behavior of vowel epenthesis in consonant clusters in the speech of natural and resident Brazilians in the states of São Paulo and Paraná. We used as corpus the data collected by the ALiB project team in 55 municipalities totaling 220 informants. Three questions from the Phonetic-Phonological Questionnaire were selected: 54, 72 and 101, the caput of which are the words aftosa, pneu and advogado, respectively. The study considers theoretical and methodological aspects of Dialectology and Sociolinguistics to analyze the phonetic-phonological phenomenon understood under a panchronic perspective. The hypotheses about the influence of linguistic and extralinguistic variables in the occurrence of phenomenon in question are confirmed by statistical treatments.
Key-words:
vowel epenthesis; consonant cluster; ALiB Project; states of São Paulo and Paraná
