Amalia Rodrigues

Phonological working memory and its relationship with language development in children

BACKGROUND Phonological working memory and typical language development in children. AIM To describe and discuss findings of researches concerning the assessment of phonological working memory in normally developing children undertaken since the 1980s. AIM To present a systematic literature review regarding the phonological working memory and its relationship with normal language development. METHOD A systematic review of the literature on phonological working memory and its relationship with language development skills of normal children was made. The used material involved books, monographs, thesis, dissertations and articles stored in Lilacs, Pubmed, Scielo and Medline databases. An analysis was made considering the applied tests and the results regarding the effects of extension and age and the relationship of these variables with phonological working memory for speakers of English and the Brazilian Portuguese language. CONCLUSION According to the consulted literature, studies indicate a relationship between the phonological and lexical knowledge and the phonological working memory in children with normal language development.

Aquisição do morfema de número em crianças em desenvolvimento normal de linguagem

BACKGROUND studies about Brazilian Portuguese number morpheme acquisition and its productive usage have indicated controversial results. AIM to verify the comprehension and production of singular and plural markers in children within normal language development. METHOD participants were 64 children ranging in age from 3:0 to 6:11 years. In the comprehension test, children were encouraged to point to the correctly inflected noun picture, among three foils. In the production test, they had to name each picture with the correctly inflected article and noun. RESULTS there was an increase of correct answers with age. The production of the plural form received the lower scores, but presented a significant enhancement from 3:0 to 5:0 years. CONCLUSION this ability improved with development and was considered productive after 5:0.