This paper investigates the variation of the pronoun "you" in portuguese spoken in the six capitals of Northern Brasil: Belém (PA), Boa Vista (RR), Macapá (AP), Manaus (AM), Porto Velho (RO) and Rio Branco (AC), northern Brazil. Based on the theory Labov (2008), extralinguistic and linguistic analyzes factors that influence the choice of either pronoun and their relationship with the verb forms of the second and third persons. Were used as corpus data produced by 8 residents of Belém; 8 Boa Vista; 8 Manaus; 8 Macapá; 8 Porto Velho and 8 Rio Branco, 4 men and 4 women of each capital through interviews of spontaneous speech, based on questionnaires Linguistic Atlas Project in Brazil (ALIB). The results show the favoring of the pronoun "you" in Belém, Manaus and Rio Branco. Boa Vista, Macapá and Porto Velho disfavor the pronoun "you".
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