Resposta dos Autores: A variação lexical e fonológica na Libras na expressão do conceito ‘elevador’

This work aims (1) to investigate the lexical and phonetic-phonological variation through the reanalysis of 22 productions referring to the concept ‘eleoriginally collected by Xavier and P. Barbosa (2014) from 12 deaf signers from the state of São Paulo, and (2) to compare our results with those reported by Xavier e F. Barbosa (2017). To achieve this, unlike Xavier e F. Barbosa’s (2017) study, the reanalyzed productions were first grouped by a deaf signer, who uses Libras as her first language, into different lexical variants based on their iconicity (motivation) and not on their formal similarity. Subsequently, the variant and stable phonetic-phonologicalaspects in the productions of each lexical variant were analyzed by their comparison. As a result, we observed a difference in the number of lexical variants in both studies, but similarities in the results related to the variable and stable phonetic-phonological features.