Epéntese vocálica: un estudio basado en el discurso de estudiantes universitarios del 4º y 8º bloque de Letras Español de la Universidad Estadual de Piauí - UESPI

Abstract

This paper studied the production of vocal epenthesis by students in the 4th and 8th year blocks of the Spanish Literature course at the State University of Piauí – UESPI, in order to explore whether or not the aforementioned phenomenon existed. This study is socially relevant because it aims at research based on university students who are acquiring a second language, with a view to reflecting on variation in speech. For this research we used the contributions of William Labov (2008), with his study on the Theory of Linguistic Variation, Coelho et al. (2010), Evangelista (2017), Ottonello (2005) and Camara Jr (1992). For the development of the research, data were collected from 2nd year university students, asking them to read a text and isolated words. The data showed that there is a higher percentage of vocal epenthesis in the 4th block, since students are still getting used to the target language, and that this phenomenon is due to the interlanguage.