This research is linked to the AMPER NORTH Project (Brazilian North prosodic multimedia atlas), which is part of AMPER – POR (Portuguese prosodic multimedia atlas). This study is going to contribute to constitute the Brazilian North multimedia atlas and its main goal is to characterize the Portuguese dialectal prosodic (variety spoken in the urban zone of Baião city PA). All the adopted methodological procedures follow the orientations settled by the general coordination of AMPER Project – POR. The corpus is composed by 06 informers and 66 phrases, syntactically structured in SVC (subject + verb + complement) and their expansions (adjectival syntagma and prepositional syntagma), obeying the same phonetic and syntactic restrictions and keeping the pattern of the corpora constituted by Portuguese varieties of AMPER Project – POR. The sentences of the corpus have 10, 13 and 14 vowels and all the phrases were repeated 06 times by each informer, constituting a total corpus of 396 phrases. The data of 06 informers were collected with three men and three women, from basic level of education medium level of education and higher level of education. Informers are aged between 35 and 75 years old. The selected corpus is constituted by 42 phrases – 21 declarative phrases and 21 interrogative – total ones, which compose the three accentual options of Portuguese. The declarative and interrogative modalities were analyzed on all the sentences and the acoustic analysis of the vowels were made in 06 parts. The analyzed acoustic parameters were: fundamental frequency (semitones), duration (ms) and intensity (dB). The results showed that the acoustic parameter of F0 is the most relevant to distinguish declarative and interrogative enunciations. It was noticed, as well on the final nominal syntagmas, as on the on the composed ones, a sound contour on the shape of a “griper”, on the last final nominal syntagma of the words and this movement shows that F0 is descendent for the declarative and ascendent to the interrogative modalities. We can understand that the duration complements F0 to distinguish the declarative and interrogative modalities. The intensity was not relevant to distinguish the modalities spoken in Baião city (PA).
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