Retraction In Cariocan Portuguese

Abstract

This study deals with retraction in Cariocan speech. I start by briefly explaining the purposes of this work, and mentioning some literature related to this phenomena not specifically in this same dialect, but in Brazilian Portuguese as a whole. Later, I present the data collected in Rio de Janeiro using techniques adopted by linguists like Labov, who has also done fieldwork in sociolinguistics. As I present the data, I show not only the results from my sample, but also the statistical significance of these results in relation to the production rate of the feature studied here. At the end, I critically evaluate the importance of this study.