Processing of BP affixes: the recognition of morphemes by illiterate children and children in literacy process
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-4301.2017.2.26422Keywords:
Morphological awareness, Morphological processing, Recognition of affixes, Recognition tasks, Language acquisitionAbstract
This paper discuss how it occurs the processing of pseudo-words formed by a base morpheme and by affixes in non-literate children and in children who are in the process of literacy, Brazilian Portuguese (BP) native speakers, through the application of the Pseudo-vocabulary Recognition Task, which evaluates the child's ability to recognize and process BP affixes and to verify the interpretation of the meaning that each affix conveys when joining the lexical morpheme. The activity was composed of pseudo-words that, in their constitution, show affixes that belong to BP; the combination of the base morpheme with the affix derives word which is not in a dictionary that could belong to the lexicon of the language (eg, “descruel”). For that, stories were told to the subjects and, later, questions related to the pseudo-words were asked. The corpus consisted of data of sixteen monolingual children, subdivided into four age groups. The results showed that most informants interpreted the meaning of the pseudo-words, indicating the ability of children to reflect on the function and meaning of morphemes. The data were analyzed based on theoretical conceptions of Language Acquisition, Morphology Acquisition and Morphological Consciousness (BORGES, 2015; SEIXAS, 2007; LIMA, 2006, LORANDI, 2006).
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