Problemas na variante tensa da fala carioca

Abstract

In this paper I reconstruct the rupture role carried out by Para o Estudo da Fonêmica Portuguesa (1953) in the Brazilian academic context of the 1950s in contrast with the Normas para a boa pronúncia da língua nacional no canto erudito established in 1937 by the Congresso da Língua Nacional Cantada. I claim that there is continuity between the phonetic point of view of the Normas and the phonemic point of view of the Fonêmica in what concerns the selection of the empirical problems to be analysed; but I also claim that there is discontinuity between the two lines of research when it comes to treating linguistics data.