Fonologia Ecossistêmica

Authors

  • Ronaldo Mangueira Lima Jr Universidade Federal do Ceará

Keywords:

linguistic endoecology, ecosystemic linguistics, dynamic systems theory, articulatory gesture.

Abstract

Studies on language sounds have traditionally approached human speech and its patterning from two distinct views: that of a biomechanical and physical activity, with the articulators moving continually through time provoking acoustic results that are perceived by the human ear (phonetics); and that of a mental and cognitive activity, in which a sequence of sounds limited by the language inventory is chosen to produce meaning (phonology). However, with the premise that language is an ecosystem whose behavior emerges from the interaction of its various elements in a holistic fashion, it is impossible to dissociate these two apparently distinct fields, since they both compose a single system. This paper explores the theoretical assumptions of Ecosystemic Linguistics and of Dynamic Systems Theory to argue in favor of an Ecosystemic Phonology in which traditional phonetics and phonology are viewed as two descriptive dimensions, microscopic and macroscopic, of a single system. In order to do so, this paper aims to demonstrate that the Articulatory Gesture plays the role of smallest phonological unit more effectively than the phoneme, for it incorporates both dimensions in a single unit as it bears a dynamic, emergent, holistic, non-linear and implementational nature.

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Author Biography

Ronaldo Mangueira Lima Jr, Universidade Federal do Ceará

Possui graduação em Letras-Inglês pela Universidade de Brasília (2006), mestrado em Linguística Aplicada pela Universidade de Brasília (2008) e doutorado em Linguística pela Universidade de Brasília (2012). É professor adjunto no Departamento de Estudos da Língua Inglesa, suas Literaturas e Tradução da Universidade Federal do Ceará, e atua no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística (PPGL), no Programa de Mestrado Profissional em Letras (ProfLetras) e no Curso de Especialização em Linguística Aplicada e Ensino de Língua Estrangeira (CELEST). É vice-coordenador do GT de Fonética e Fonologia da ANPOLL (2019-2020). Tem experiência nas áreas de Linguística e Linguística Aplicada, com ênfase em Fonética e Fonologia, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: fonética acústica, aquisição fonológica, aquisição de segunda língua, ensino de inglês-L2.

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2016-09-11

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Lima Jr, R. M. (2016). Fonologia Ecossistêmica. Ecolinguística: Revista Brasileira De Ecologia E Linguagem (ECO-REBEL), 2(2), 73–90. Retrieved from https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/erbel/article/view/9691

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