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<DIV class=Section1><PRE><SPAN class=SpellE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Língua</SPAN></FONT></SPAN> <SPAN class=SpellE>matis</SPAN> (<SPAN class=SpellE>pano</SPAN>): <SPAN class=SpellE>uma</SPAN> <SPAN class=SpellE>análise</SPAN> <SPAN class=SpellE>fonológica</SPAN><o:p></o:p></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">VITÓRIA REGINA SPANGHERO FERREIRA Universidad de </SPAN></FONT><st1:City><st1:place>CAMPINAS</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The following study shows a phonetic and phonological report of the<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><SPAN class=SpellE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Matis</SPAN></FONT></SPAN> language, belonging to the <SPAN class=SpellE>Pano</SPAN> family whose population lives in<o:p></o:p></PRE><PRE><SPAN class=GramE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">the</SPAN></FONT></SPAN> state of <SPAN class=SpellE>Amazonas</SPAN>.<o:p></o:p></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><SPAN class=GramE><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">This work consist</SPAN></FONT></SPAN> of six chapters, conclusion and a bibliography. The first chapter <SPAN class=770163921-19112001><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial> </FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE>shows a brief introduction, presents the methodology applied in the field to collect <SPAN class=770163921-19112001><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial> </FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE>the linguistic material used in this study and the methodology of linguistic analysis.<o:p></o:p></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The second chapter shows a detailed report of the <SPAN class=SpellE>Matis</SPAN> people, their geographical <SPAN class=770163921-19112001><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial> </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">position and some aspects concerning their language and culture, and a brief discussion <SPAN class=770163921-19112001><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial> </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">of the studies about the <SPAN class=SpellE>Pano</SPAN> linguistic family.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The third chapter defines the phonemes <SPAN class=770163921-19112001><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial> </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">and the allophones of the language through the traditional analysis such as minimum pair, <SPAN class=770163921-19112001><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial> </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">analogous pair, complementary distribution and free variation.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From the fourth chapter on our study was guided mainly by the<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><SPAN class=GramE><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">non-linear</SPAN></FONT></SPAN> phonological theories. On this chapter we covered the <SPAN class=SpellE>Matis</SPAN> syllable structure, <SPAN class=770163921-19112001><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial> </FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE>taking into consideration the syllable, syllable standards, the language syllable process, <SPAN class=770163921-19112001><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial> </FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE>the ambivalent sequences, and we classified the phonemes in natural classes according to <SPAN class=770163921-19112001><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial> </FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE>the feature geometrical theory.<o:p></o:p></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The fifth chapter analyzes the phonological processes which occur in the language: fusion, <SPAN class=770163921-19112001><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial> </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">nasal assimilation, lenition and tapping, neutralization and vowel deletion. 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