Phonological acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese: Ages of customary production, acquisition and mastery

Author(s):  
Marizete Ilha Ceron ◽  
Simone Nicolini De Simoni ◽  
Márcia Keske‐Soares
2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Carmen Lúcia Barreto Matzenauer

Este artigo apresenta uma reflexão sobre a construção gradativa da gramática no processo de aquisição da fonologia por crianças falantes nativas do português do Brasil, com foco na constituição do inventário de segmentos consonantais. A sistematicidade do processo pôde ser reconhecida e explicitada com os pressupostos teóricos propostos por Clements ([2005] 2009), que apresenta, com base em traços distintivos, princípios que, de forma interativa, são determinantes da organização de inventários fonológicos das línguas. A análise, com fundamento em dois princípios chamados neste estudo – o Princípio de Robustez e o Princípio de Economia de Traços –, pôde trazer evidências de que há tendências universais subjacentes à formação das gramáticas fonológicas das crianças em fase de aquisição da linguagem, assim como ocorre em relação à constituição dos inventários fonológicos das línguas.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Aquisição fonológica. Inventário consonantal. Princípios universais. ABSTRACTThis paper presents a reflection on the gradual construction of grammar in the process of phonological acquisition by children who are native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese, focusing on the constitution of the consonantal segment inventory. The systematicity of the process could be recognized and explained by Clements’ theoretical presuppositions ([2005] 2009), whose distinctive feature-based principles, in an interactive way, have determined the organization of the phonological inventories of languages. Based on two principles – Robustness and Feature Economy –, the analysis that was carried out in this study could evidence that there are universal tendencies underlying the formation of children’s phonological grammars in their language acquisition process, as well as in the constitution of the phonological inventories of languages. KEY-WORDS: Phonological acquisition. Consonantal inventory. Universal principles.  


CoDAS ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 260-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernanda Marafiga Wiethan ◽  
Letícia Arruda Nóro ◽  
Helena Bolli Mota

PURPOSE: Verifying likely relationships between lexical and phonological development of children aged between 1 year to 1 year, 11 months and 29 days, who were enrolled in public kindergarten schools of Santa Maria (RS).METHODS: The sample consisted of 18 children of both genders, with typical language development and aged between 1 year to 1 year, 11 months and 29 days, separated in three age subgroups. Visual recordings of spontaneous speech of each child were collected and then lexical analysis regarding the types of the said lexical items and phonological assessment were performed. The number of sounds acquired and partially acquired were counted together, and the 19 sounds and two allophones of Brazilian Portuguese were considered. To the statistical analysis, the tests of Kruskal-Wallis and Wilcoxon were used, with significance level of p<0.05.RESULTS: When compared the means relating to the acquired sounds and mean of the acquired and partially acquired sounds percentages, there was difference between the first and the second age subgroup, and between the first and the third subgroup. In the comparison of the said lexical items means among the age subgroups, there was difference between the first and the second subgroup, and between the first and the third subgroup again. In the comparison between the said lexical items and acquired and partially acquired sounds in each age subgroup, there was difference only in the age subgroup of 1 year and 8 months to 1 year, 11 months and 29 days, in which the sounds highlighted.CONCLUSION: The phonological and lexical domains develop as a growing process and influence each other. The Phonology has a little advantage.


2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 1461
Author(s):  
Alison Roberto Goncalves ◽  
Rosane Silveira

Abstract: The present study inquired whether orthography affects phonological processing of English as an L2. To do so, a lexicon that simulated opaque and transparent grapho-phonic English relations in nuclear position was developed (e.g., keet, deit, toud). Bilingual speakers of Brazilian Portuguese and English were compelled to learn this new lexicon through a repeated-exposure training paradigm in which they were introduced to the lexicon phonological forms associated with their visual forms, and then to the phonological forms associated with their visual and orthographic forms. After undergoing training, subjects were tested with a Timed Picture Naming task to investigate orthographic recruitment in spoken production. Results suggested that orthography influenced naming of the trained words, indicating that the process of converting a visual input into its phono-articulatory representations for production involves orthographic activation. Such a finding was interpreted as a frequency effect of the grapho-phonic combination, which resulted in lack of skill to compute this operation in the sublexical route. Overall, the presence of orthographic effects in this task can be interpreted as evidence for such a system to function as a strategic mechanism that aids lexical encoding and, consequently, influences lexical access in initial stages of instructed language acquisition.Keywords: phonological acquisition; orthography; psycholinguistics.Resumo: Este estudo investigou se a ortografia afeta o processamento fonológico do inglês como L2. Para tal, um léxico que simulava as relações grafo-fônicas opacas e transparentes do inglês em posição nuclear (e.g., keet, deit, toud) foi desenvolvido. Bilíngues falantes de português brasileiro e de inglês participaram de um treinamento para adquirir este novo léxico com o paradigma de exposição repetida, através do qual foram introduzidas as formas fonológicas deste léxico associadas às suas formas visuais e, depois, as formas fonológicas associadas às suas formas visuais e ortográficas. Após a fase de treinamento, os participantes foram testados com uma tarefa temporalizada de nomeação de figuras para investigar efeitos do recrutamento ortográfico na produção da fala. Os resultados sugeriram que a ortografia influenciou a nomeação das palavras aprendidas no treinamento, indicando que o processo de conversão de uma representação visual para suas representações fonoarticulatórias na produção da fala em L2 envolve a ativação ortográfica. Este resultado foi interpretado como um efeito de frequência da combinação grafo-fônica, que resultou em inabilidade para executar esta operação na rota sublexical. Assim, a presença de efeitos ortográficos nessa tarefa pode ser interpretada como evidência de que o sistema ortográfico pode funcionar como um mecanismo estratégico que auxilia na codificação lexical e, consequentemente, influencia o acesso lexical nos estágios iniciais da aquisição da linguagem em meios instrucionais.Palavras-chave: aquisição fonológica; ortografia; psicolinguística.


Author(s):  
Susiele Machry da Silva

This article deals with the acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese as an additional language by Haitian immigrants, more specifically with regard to the perception of liquid consonants / l / and / r / in the intervocalic position, in forms such as pala, mala, Sara. A total of 14 resident Haitian immigrants, at the time of the survey, in the city of Pato Branco-PR, with a mean age of 30.07 (SD = 4.98), were all male. The discussion of the data is based on the theoretical assumptions of the Phonological Acquisition of L2 (FLEGE, 1995; BEST, TYLER, 2007) and the results show a tendency towards the assimilation process, ie without the separate categorization of / l / and / R / . There is also a positive effect of the course time and the fact that the informant resides here with his Haitian family, with better performance for those who attend longer courses and reside here with their family.


Revista CEFAC ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 703-714
Author(s):  
Ana Rita Brancalioni ◽  
Ana Paula Bogoni ◽  
Diane Pinto da Silva ◽  
Vanessa Giacchini

ABSTRACT Objective: to verify and compare phonological acquisition and performance in phonological awareness tasks among children exposed to a bilingual (Brazilian Portuguese and German) or monolingual family environments (Brazilian Portuguese). Methods: a sample of 32 children of both sexes aged 5 years were divided into the bilingual group (13 children), who lived daily with people who spoke German and Portuguese, and the monolingual group (19 children), who lived daily with people who spoke only the Portuguese language. Phonological acquisition and phonological awareness skills were assessed using protocols standardized for Brazilian Portuguese and statistically analyzed using the Fisher exact test and Mann-Whitney test, considering p<0.05. Results: the results revealed that a greater number of subjects demonstrated atypical phonological acquisition in the bilingual group and scored worse results in the phonological awareness skills evaluation. Phonological processes were similar in both groups. None of the results obtained were statistically significant. Conclusion: deviant phonological acquisition was superior in the bilingual family environment group. Phonological processes were similar for both groups. In the phonological awareness tasks, children in the bilingual family environment group obtained better results only for the phonemic synthesis tasks. For other tasks, children in the monolingual family group achieved better results.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Eduardo Ferreira de Moraes ◽  
Carla Mourilhe ◽  
Sílvia Regina de Freitas ◽  
Glória Valéria da Veiga ◽  
Marsha D. Marcus ◽  
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