Salvador, Vitória da Conquista e Teófilo Otoni

In this article, we propose to evaluate the fundamental frequency (F0) of the vowels /a/, /i/ and /u/ of the speakers of Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, Salvador, BA and Teofilo Otoni, MG. We choose of these three cities because the contact between the natives due to narrow social and economic relationship between them, even though they are geographically distant. Our hypothesis is that Vitória Conquista dialect will suffer influence from the others dialects. For this work, we measure the vowel F0 of the stressed syllable and pre stressed syllable, in three points: first, middle and end. To analysis of grouping the dialects, we conducted discriminant multivariate analysis. The results show that Vitória da Conquista and Teofilo Otoni orm a group opposed to Salvador.