Language variation and contact phonetic and phonological aspects of Portuguese of Maputo city

The main goal of this study was to determine the extent to which (some of) Chambers' (1998) "Eight Rules of Dialect Acquisition", also discussed by Surek-Clark (1998) in her study of Brazilian Portuguese speakers, apply to Mozambique Portuguese learners and if sociolinguistic factors such as age, education, residence and sex, play a significant role in allophonic distribution and sociolinguistic variation in Portuguese in Mozambique, taking into account community-based patterns of use. The data used in this study is part of Panorama of Oral Portuguese of Maputo "PPOM - Panorama do Português Oral do Maputo", a linguistic survey comprised of individual interviews and group interviews carried out in 1997 in region of the City of Maputo and its surroundings undertaken by Christopher Stroud and Perpétua Gonçalves (1997).

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Linguistics

Year dc:date.issued

2010

Author dc:creator

• Simango, Aurélio Zacarias

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Mesthrie, Rajend

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11441

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11441