Castelo, SilvaFrota, Sónia2016-10-252016-10-252015Castelo, J. & S. Frota (2015) Variação entoacional no Português do Brasil: uma análise fonológica do contorno nuclear em enunciados declarativos e interrogativos, in XXX Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística. Textos Selecionados, ed. J. Veloso, F. Silva & A. Moreno, Porto: APL, 113-131. ISBN: 978-989-97440-4-2978-989-97440-4-2http://hdl.handle.net/10451/24894In this paper we present a phonological analysis of the nuclear contour of declarative and interrogative utterances in Brazilian Portuguese, as spoken in 7 regions, along the Atlantic Coast - Paraíba, Sergipe, Bahia (North); Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro (Center), Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul (South). Declaratives present a falling contour, with phonetic differences across varieties. As for interrogatives, more variation was found. Namely, two types of nuclear contours were observed: a rising contour in the North and a rising-falling in the Center-South. Unlike declaratives, the two interrogative patterns display a phonological continuum, in which the Center-Southern pattern spreads towards the North.porIntonationEntoaçãoDeclarativeDeclarativaYes-no questionInterrogativas sim-nãoIntonational variationVariação entoacionalBrazilian PortuguesePortuguês do Brasilbook part