Angélica Savoldi

Aquisição da coda: um estudo comparativo entre dados transversais e longitudinais

ABSTRACT Purpose: To identify the acquisition profiles of the archiphonemes /N, L, S, R/ in medial and final coda position in Brazilian Portugue-se in transversal and longitudinal studies. Methods: Speech samples of 170 children with ages between one year and two months and three years and eight months (transversal study), as well as speech samples of a child, G., monitored from one year, one month and twenty two days to three years, four months and twenty seven days (longitudinal study), were collected and phonologically analyzed. Results: In the transversal profile, data showed the early emergence of the blocked syllable (at one year and two months), and com-pletion of the acquisition at three years and eight months. The phonemes in final coda tended to emerge before the ones in medial coda, with rare exceptions. The /L/ and the /N/ archiphonemes were the first to emerge in this position. After that, it was observed the /L/ acquisition, and, finally, the /R/ acquisition. In the longitudinal study, the coda also emerged early, coincidentally when the child was one year and two months old; however, it was acquired six months before what it was observed in the transversal data, at three years and eight months. The emerging syllable contained the /N/ rather than the /L/, as observed in the transversal data. The /L/ was the second phoneme in coda, while the /S/ was still earlier than the /R/, and these two phonemes were the last segments to emerge as a syllabic block. In all cases, the phonemes in final coda emerged before those in medial coda, similarly to the transversal results.

Quais são as melhores palavras para compor um instrumento de avaliação fonológica

PURPOSE: To judge what kind of words would be more appropriate to the social and/or linguistic reality to compose an instrument of phonological evaluation to Brazilian Portuguese children. METHODS: From an initial list of 722 words of the lexicon child and phonological assessments currently used, examined judged the best words to compose the instrument according to its theoretical and practical knowledge. A new list was formed with 316 selected words, these were illustrated and analyzed by specialists as judges not to familiarity and proper elicitation through Likert scale. RESULTS: Analysis of expert judges had a weak agreement with Kappa value equivalent to 0.378 resulting in 316 selected words. The trial judges not experts resulted in the list of words to compose the most appropriate assessment tool by phonological criteria as the percentage of correct familiarity and elicitation. CONCLUSION: There were selected considering the analyzes of the judges 116 words, with its illustration, to compose the phonological assessment tool.

Avaliação de aspectos pragmáticos em crianças com desvios fonológicos

Purpose to investigate the pragmatic abilities in children with phonological disorder. Method 12 children (three girls and nine boys) with phonological disorders aged from 3:7 to 7:8 were chosen by triage. Pragmatic analysis was executed using the instrument ABFW – pragmatic through speech and hearing screening. Furthermore, we calculated the level of severity of the phonological evolutionary disorder using a quantitative – Percentage of Consonants Correct – Revised (Shiriberg & Kwiatkowski, 1982) and a qualitative approach (Keske-Soares, 2001). Results there are no statistically significant correlation between the level of severity of the phonological disorder and pragmatic performance. However, we observed that subjects with phonological disorder showed a number of communicative acts per minute lower than the default values of the test when ranged by age group. Conclusion based on the results, it is not possible to state a direct relationship between level of severity of the phonological disorder and pragmatic performance even if these subjects have a lower performance than the default values of the test.