ORIGEM DE UAI: UMA HIPÓTESE CAIPIRA

ORIGEM DE UAI: UMA HIPÓTESE CAIPIRA

The main purpose of this paper is to test a hypothesis suggested by Amaral (1976) about the origin of the famous uai mineira interjection. For this author, uai form derived from a phonetic change process which began in the word olhai, in the hillbilly speech from the countryside of the state of São...

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Main Authors: Hadinei Ribeiro Batista, Marco Aurélio Cunha Camargos
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade Federal de Goiás 2013-06-01
Series:Linguagem: Estudos e Pesquisas
Subjects:
Phonetics
Phonology
Phonetic Change
Online Access:https://www.revistas.ufg.br/lep/article/view/32352/21280
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Summary:The main purpose of this paper is to test a hypothesis suggested by Amaral (1976) about the origin of the famous uai mineira interjection. For this author, uai form derived from a phonetic change process which began in the word olhai, in the hillbilly speech from the countryside of the state of São Paulo.
ISSN:1519-6240
2358-1042

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