Following the theoretical and methodological principles of Variationist Sociolinguistics, this paper analyzes the use of the aspirated variant of postvocalic /s/ by residents of City of God, a predominantly-black neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro that is widely known as a favela (roughly, shantytown or slum). The analyzed data consist of seventeen sociolinguistic interviews conducted in 2015 with twenty-two residents of this community. The quantitative analysis included six social variables—race/color, regional origin, age, gender, education, and speaker—as well as six linguistic variables—preceding vowel, following sound, syllabic stress, number of syllables, grammatical category, and word. Race/color, age, and all the linguistic factors considered in the analysis were selected as statistically significant to the occurrence of /s/ aspiration. This study indicates a possible connection between aspiration and race/color and stresses the importance of including racial identity as a relevant factor in sociolinguistic studies in Brazil, especially those focusing on favelas and other similar urban communities.

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里约热内卢贫民窟中词最后// s /愿望的社会语言分析

遵循变异主义社会语言学的理论和方法论原理，本文分析了上帝之城居民在里约热内卢的一个以黑色为主的居民区，人们广泛地使用贫民区（棚户区或贫民窟）。分析的数据包括2015年与该社区的22位居民进行的十七次社会语言访谈。定量分析包括六个社会变量-种族/肤色，地区血统，年龄，性别，教育程度和说话者-以及六个语言变量-元音之前，跟随声音，音节重音，音节数量，语法类别和单词。选择种族/肤色，年龄和分析中考虑的所有语言因素作为对/ s /误吸发生率的统计显着性。