O ALFONIC, um pré-alfabeto que deu certo

Preocupações semelhantes às dos alfabetizadores brasileiros de hoje levaram, anos atrás, os seus colegas franceses a uma proposta singular a utilização de um sistema de escrita nâo-ortogrãfico que permitiria às crianças reproduzir livremente a linguagem oral própria. Esse sistema, de inspiração fonológica, chamado ALFONIC baseia-se no critério da biunivocidade entre letras e sons (fonemas) e na necessidade de possibilitar às pessoas não alfabetizadas, sem o constrangimento e incongruências da ortografia tradicional, a comunicação gráfica, como substituto direto da comunicação oral. Um dos primeiros resultados constatados foi uma explosão de produção escrita. Não poderia esta experiência ser aplicada ao português?

A fonologia da língua deni (arawá)

O livro é um estudo fonológico da língua indígena Deni, pertencente à família Arawá e falada no estado do Amazonas por cerca de 1.200 pessoas, distribuídas por nove aldeias. Ele reveste-de de importância na medida em que, embora a língua Deni já seja conhecida há algum tempo, os estudos a seu respeito eram até agora esparsos e inconsistentes, realizados por missionários que visavam à catequese. Fruto de pesquisa de campo com falantes nativos, o livro aprofunda alguns aspectos pouco compreendidos da língua Deni, como suas relações com as outras cinco línguas da família linguística Arawá, que em sua maioria são faladas por povos amazônicos. Traz ainda uma análise fonológica preliminar que permite melhor entendimento do sistema de consoantes e vogais do Deni, assim como da constituição das sílabas e do padrão acentual. Muitas línguas indígenas brasileiras foram extintas sem deixar nenhum tipo de estudo, quando se sabe que as pesquisas realizadas sobre as línguas indígenas no mundo contribuíram enormemente para o desenvolvimento da Linguística. No Brasil, este cenário paulatinamente começa a mudar. O livro comprova que há de fato um novo interesse pela análise e documentação das línguas indígenas no país

Análise prosódica de preposições monossilábicas

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Pausas e constituintes prosódicos na interpretação de atores

Pós-graduação em Fonoaudiologia - FFC

Characteristics of fricatives consonants orthography in Brazilian children

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Desempenho de escolares de ensino público com e sem dificuldade de aprendizagem em habilidadefonológica, nomeação rápida, leitura e escrita

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Desempenho de escolares com dislexia: programas de intervenção metalinguistico e de leitura

Dyslexia is specific learning disabilities, of neurological origin, resulted from a phonological deficit of language. This study aims to verify the performance of students with dyslexia in phonological intervention program, reading program, and phonological and reading remediation program in students with dyslexia. The participants of this study were 60 students who were divided as follows: GI (ten students with dyslexia submitted to phonological remediation program and ten students with dyslexia not submitted to phonological remediation program), GII (ten students with dyslexia submitted to reading program and ten students with dyslexia not submitted to reading program), GIII (ten students with dyslexia submitted to phonological and reading program and ten students with dyslexia not submitted to phonological and reading program). The phonological and reading remediation was applied in three phases: pretest, training, post-testing. The results showed significant statistical difference between two evaluation moments, revealed better performance in the cognitive-linguistic skills in post-test situation comparing to the pretest, showing the efficacy of the three remediation programs for students with dyslexia. The better performance of the students with dyslexia submitted to the remediation programs shows the necessity of phonological instruction or phonological instruction with reading to be offered in the literacy context, once this will help students to develop cognitive-linguistic skills to learn the alphabetic basis of the Brazilian Portuguese writing system.

Desempenho de escolares com dislexia e transtorno do déficit de atenção e hiperatividade nos processos de leitura

This study aimed to characterize and to compare the performance of students with an interdisciplinary diagnosis of dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in students with good academic performance on the reading processes. Sixty students from both genders, from 2nd to 4th grades of municipal public schools in Marília - SP participated in this study, they were distributed as follows: GI, 20 students with interdisciplinary diagnosis of dyslexia; GII, 20 students with ADHD and GIII, 20 students with good academic performance, paired according to gender, age and grade level with GI and GII. The students were submitted to the application of the assessment of reading processes (PROLEC) composed by four processes: letters identification, lexical, syntactical and semantic. The results highlighted that the students of GIII showed superior performance comparing with GI and GII. There was difference between GI and GII only in low frequency word reading and non words reading of the lexical process. The inferior performance from GI and GII in the PROLEC tests can be justified by the difficulty on the coding and decoding abilities. In ADHD students this difficulty was due to impaired interaction between the visual, linguistic, attention and auditory processing and in the dyslexic students was due to failure at the phonological mediation process, which depends on the knowledge of rules of grapheme - phoneme conversion to the acquisition of word reading. These changes affect the reading achievement and the comprehension of the read text.

Desempenho cognitivo-linguístico e leitura em escolares com transtorno do déficit de atençào e hiperatividade

OBJECTIVE: the aim of this study was to compare the cognitive-linguistic skills performance and reading of students with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder and students without behavioral and/or learning disorders. METHOD: the study included 20 students from 5th to 8th grade of elementary school. The students were divided into: Group I (GI): composed by 10 students with an interdisciplinary diagnosis of Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder, and Group II (GII): composed by 10 students without complaints of behavioral and/or learning disorders. The tests of metalinguistic skills and reading (PROHMELE) were used as procedure, composed of syllabic and phonemic identification, syllabic and phonemic manipulation, repetition of nonwords and reading tests. RESULTS: the results showed statistically significant differences between GI and GII, demonstrating that students from GI presented superior performances when compared to the students from GII. CONCLUSION: according to the findings of this study we can conclude that the difficulties presented by students with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder can be attributed to inattention, hyperactivity and disorganization, characteristic of this diagnosis, and not to a disorder of language of phonological basis.

Caracterização do desempenho de crianças com dislexia do desenvolvimento em tarefas de escrita

INTRODUCTION: developmental dyslexia is characterized by impairment in reading and writing of simple words often involving deficits in phonological decoding and spelling. It affects individuals without sensory disabilities, free of significant emotional commitment and adequate educational opportunities. OBJECTIVE: to characterize the performance in activities related to writing observed in children with developmental dyslexia. METHOD: a total of six children (boys and girls) from 3rd to 7th grade from public schools in a city in the state of Sao Paulo, eight to thirteen years of age, participated in this study. Data were collected in CEES - Centro de Estudos de Educação e Saúde of UNESP - in Marília -SP in writing tasks. The results were analyzed descriptively by the score in percentage of correct answers. RESULTS: children with developmental dyslexia presented alterations in relation to the activities: writing of isolated words and writing of dictated words were below expectations for the education level, presenting phonological and orthographic changes. CONCLUSION: it is important that children with school problems make a more specific evaluation concerning these tasks.

Hesitações na fala infantil: indícios da complexidade da língua

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

As grafias não-convencionais da coda silábica nasal: análise de dados de EJA

Este artigo trata das grafias não convencionais da sílaba com coda nasal encontradasem textos escritos por jovens e adultos. Para a descrição desses dados de escrita, sãoconsideradas duas complexidades: (i) a fonético-fonológica da sílaba, particularmente doelemento nasal em coda, e (ii) a da representação ortográfica da nasalidade em português.Sob o aspecto fonético, a coda corresponde a uma redução de energia, o que pode tornar ossegmentos que preenchem essa posição da sílaba menos audíveis. Sob o aspecto fonológico,a coda pode ser vista como um constituinte não imediato da sílaba cujo preenchimento sofrerestrições. Sob o aspecto ortográfico, são três as possibilidades de registro da nasalidade:, como, respectivamente, em “campo”, “canto”, “maçã”. Argumenta-se que asgrafias não convencionais analisadas podem ser motivadas pelas características fonéticofonológicasdos enunciados falados (particularmente, da sílaba com coda nasal) e, também,pelas características das convenções ortográficas dos enunciados escritos (especificamente,as convenções para representação da nasalidade da coda). Defende-se que essas grafias nãosejam vistas como erros decorrentes da interferência da fala na escrita, mas como pistas darelação constitutiva dos enunciados falados e escritos.

A aquisição do contraste /t/ e /k/ sob a ótica dinâmica

In this article, we present different interpretations to the phenomenon of velar fronting, found in the speech of children. This phenomenon is discussed under both of the following paradigms: the symbolic one – which considers the existence of segments as sources of categorical representations – and the dynamic one, which not only considers different representational units, but also provides an alternative conception of what may be taken as a representation. The analysis focuses on acoustic data produced by children of about three years of age under controlled conditions in a ludic context. The results indicate that the subjects have a covert contrast between alveolars and velars that may be interpreted in light of at least three dynamic hypotheses.

A influência da língua inglesa na formação de nomes comerciais: questões de identidade linguística e cultural

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Desenvolvimento de ferramentas pedagógicas para identificação de escolares de risco para a dislexia

PURPOSE: The development and application of collective pedagogical activities to assess phonological skills in pre-readers and beginning readers and could serve as potential screening tools to help in the early identification of students at risk for dyslexia. METHODS: The FAE tasks (alternative tools for educators) were built on classical phonological tasks known as sound categorization and in the Protocol for Cognitive-Linguistic Skills. FAE tasks basically consisted of matching pictures as well as pictures to spoken words according to their phonological similarity in the onset (alliteration) or rhyme and were given to 45 students on the first grade, of both genres and 7.3 years old on average. RESULTS: The protocol proved to be effective, confirming that phonological awareness, verbal working memory and rapid naming abilities constitute the main risk factors for dyslexia, and to which the FAE tasks were more strongly correlated jointly with the phonemic discrimination. FAE tasks were also strongly correlated with literacy skills. CONCLUSIONS: Students at risk for dyslexia can be efficiently identified through scientifically developed pedagogical tools, adapted and tested for the Brazilian's educational reality. This is a promising research field with the potential to help in avoiding the currently excessive number of students mistakenly labeled as having learning disabilities and improperly referred to specialized public services, as well as to indicate the more appropriate theoretical-empirical framework to guide our educational policies.