Use of vibrant in the acquisition of Portuguese as a foreign language by native American and Spanish speakers: implications for teaching

Abstract

Based on the theoretical postulations of Labov's Sociolinguistics, this study proposes to analyze the use of vibrant in the acquisition of the Portuguese as a foreign language by native Americans and Spanish speakers. For this purpose, it was selected types of bibliographical, field and analytics researches and, the speech from 11 American and 11 Spanish native speakers were divided in styles, which passes through informal to ones that are more formal.