Covariação entre os verbos botar e colocar nas capitais do Brasil

This article discusses the use of the competing verbs botar and colocar in Brazilian Portuguese in data from the capitals of the five regions of Brazil (Centre West, North East, North, South East and South) extracted from the speech records of the Phonetic-Phonological Questionnaire (QFF), the Semantic-Lexical Questionnaire (QSL) and the Morphosyntactic Questionnaire (QMS) of the Linguistic Atlas of Brazil - ALiB, totalling 200 informants. Thus, our general objective is to verify which social factors, such as gender, age group, schooling and location, favour the use of the verb botar, considered to have less social prestige, in the sample analysed. Our methodological model starts with the collection, coding and discussion of the results, developed based on the theoretical-methodological assumptions of Variationist Sociolinguistics (Labov, 2008; Weinreich; Labov; Herzog, 2006 [1968]), using the technological tool defined as R language (R CORE TEAM, 2021) to collect the occurrences. The statistical results allowed us to infer that 48.5 per cent of interviewers use the verb botar (1,473 data points) and 51.5 per cent the verb colocar (1,567 data points). In addition, it was possible to infer that the gender variable does not correlate with the variation between the verbs studied, as opposed to the age, schooling, region and location variables, which are correlated with the variation between the verbs studied.