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Several authors have described the variety of Portuguese spoken on the island of São Miguel (Azores,) but the speech of the Micaelans has never been analyzed from a contemporary sociolinguistic perspective. In this work, we present a quantitative analysis of the dialect of the village of Northeast (São Miguel), in which a vowel system is revealed whose variation oscillates between the island pronunciations of the tonic vowels and the corresponding forms of the Portuguese standard language. For example, while all the informants in the corpus pronounced the vowel tonic u as the previous high vowel rounded [y] (as u …