Monotongação e ensino: quando a variação linguística chega à escrita

This paper discusses the mode how is manifesting the process of Monophthongization in textual writing production of children who complete the cycle of childhood, name assigned to the first three years of schooling for literacy. It too describes, based on Quantitative Sociolinguistic (GUY; ZILLES, 2007), the set of linguistic – classes of words, tone of the syllable and context later phonological – and extra linguistic factors – age group, educational level and sex of informants – constraints of presence/erasure of decreasing oral diphthongs /ey/, /ay/ and /ow/ in writing of such subjects in the final years of the first stage of basic education. The Monophthongization consists in glide deletion of these diphthongs, reducing the vowel-to-vowel meeting. This description seeks to assist the teacher in mediation student self-monitoring process with regard to differences between oral language and writing. If adopted such as corpus analysis fifty texts written by students from third, fourth and fifth years of an urban public school of the municipality of Itabaiana – SE. The occurrences of diphthong and monophthong were submitted to statistical tool GoldVarb X (SANKOFF et al, 2005). The results achieved show that the presence/deletion of the glides / y / and / w / of the diphthongs in study is conditioned by extra linguistic factors: age group and education, and linguistic factors: phonological context later (type of consonant) and classes of words (no verb)