Relations between orthographic and phonetic-phonological aspects of plosive phonemes

PURPOSES:

to describe the children's orthographic performance - regarding to the record of plosive consonants from the Brazilian Portuguese; check if the accent influences the occurrence of mistakes inside the words; and classify the pattern of the mistakes distribution.

METHODS:

210 text productions referred to 14 thematic proposals were analyzed, they were collected during the year 2001, when the individuals attended the First grade of Primary School. To describe the children's performance, for the first objective, the data were divided in Hits and Mistakes; for the second objective, the mistakes were classified according to their occurrence in accented and non-accented syllables, and, finally, for the third objective, the mistakes were subclassified in omissions, orthographic and phonological mistakes. The phonological mistakes were even subdivided, according to their occurrence inside and outside the occlusive class.

RESULTS:

for the first objective, 5.746 possibilities of occurrence of plosive consonants in a position of simple syllable onset were found, with a high amount of hits; for the second objective, it was observed a higher occurrence of mistakes in non-accented syllables; and finally, for the third objective, it was possible to observe the predominance of phonological mistakes, followed by omissions and by orthographic mistakes, both inside the non-accented syllables and the accented ones. Still according to the third objective, in the phonological mistakes, a higher occurrence of mistakes inside the class was observed and, again, no accent influence.

CONCLUSION:

the importance of the phonetic-phonological aspects analysis in the acquisition of child orthography is highlighted, as well as the relevance of the distribution of hits and mistakes in the orthographic performance.

Handwriting; Language Development; Child; Phonetics; Linguistics