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The English voiceless interdental fricative is a segment of difficult access for Brazilian learners of English as a second language. This difficulty is justified by the absence of the segment in the phonological inventory of the Brazilian portuguese. Some Brazilian researches have proposed to analyze how the acquisition of this segment occurs, however, there are few studies that seek to verify the phonological awareness for the manipulation phoneme'process. This way, this article pretend to analyze how two learner's distinct groups behave linguistically in the face of the phoneme in focus, i.e. the English voiceless interdental fricative . These groups were divided based on the type of orientation they received on the second language's phonological aspects. One of the groups obtained explicit instruction about the main differences between the phonology of English and Portuguese, while the other group was not conditioned to notice the same peculiarities. The paper is based on Variationist Sociolinguistics, Labov (2008 [1972]); in the L2's acquisition (JENKINS, 2000; ALVES, 2012) and in the speech production's acoustic theory (BARBOSA & MADUREIRA, 2015, CHIBA & KAJIYAMA, 1941, FANT, 1960). Linked to the second language's acquisition, Sociolinguística aims to investigate multiple factors that condition the variation' processes in learners' speech. The acoustic analysis provides security in the data's interpretative part, which discards possible errors in the productions' judgment. The collected material was analysed in the praat software, version 5.3 (BOERSMA & WEENINK, 2014), then coded and analyzed quantitatively through GOLDVARB X (SANKOFF; TAGLIAMONTE; SMITH, 2005), in order to verify the factors that act as conditioners for variation's process in learners' speech. The results show greater effectiveness of fricative production in the group of learners who received explicit instruction about phonetic-phonological distinctions of English in relation to the linguistic system of Brazilian Portuguese.

ANÁLISE ACÚSTICA DA PRODUÇÃO DA FRICATIVA INTERDENTAL NÃO VOZEADA DO INGLÊS POR APRENDIZES BRASILEIROS VIA CONSCIÊNCIA FONOLÓGICA