Resumo

CARDOSO-MARTINS, Cláudia  e  DUARTE, Geísa Andrade. Significado e propriedades fonológicas da fala em pré-escolas: alguns resultados discrepantes. Educ. Rev. [online]. 1993, n.18-19, pp.59-67. ISSN 0102-4698.

This work evaluated preschool and kindergarten children’s ability to disregard meaning and focus attention on the phonological aspects of speech. The research was carried out by means of two differents tasks. The first, the word-size task, checked the learnes´ skill to compare pairs of words concerning length, in pairs in which the length of the word and the size of its referent were incongruent (e.g. train-telephone). The second, the word-similarity task, investigated the children’s ability to select out of two different words the one which resembled a standard word. One of the words rhymed with the standard word, the other was semantically related to it. The group of older children at the age of literacy was capable of disregarding meaning in both tasks. Rather than concentrating on menaing, during the word-similarity task, the youngest testees focused their attention on the phonological aspects of speech. The results obtained from the performance of preschool children were interpreted according to the different phonological operations underlying both tasks.

Palavras-chave : Children; Meaning; Word; Size Task; Word-similarity Task; Phonological Aspects; Phonological Operations.

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