Revista de Estudos da Linguagem

7-25

Authors: Cátia de Azevedo Fronza

This paper is on children’s writing in the first stages of Brazilianelementary education. These data are considered in a relationshipbetween writing acquisition and speech acquisition, because similaraspects are noted in both process. Preliminary discussions areintroduced on an interpretation of writing data with someassumptions on Optimality Theory. At first, it seems possible tounderstand writing as a similar process to speech, but much researchis necessary. Seeing writing as a process is as important as what ithas to do with speech acquisition. It’s necessary to understandboth processes as attempte to achieve the standard and theseattempte also depend on cognitive and contextual factors.

53-71

Authors: Evani Viotti

The goal of this paper is to investigate the contexts in BrazilianPortuguese in which DPs are marked with nominative default Case,and to analyse the possibility of attributing default Case to the DPsin post-verbal position of sentences built with inaccusative verbs.The claim is that, if the verb shows agreement features, such DPswill check the nominative Case in the syntax; if the verb isuninflected for person and number, such DPs will receive a defaultCase marking in the morphological component.

95-116

Authors: Teresinha de Moraes Brenner

Cet article présente une succincte discussion à propos de la vibrante,coda syllabique, dans le dialecte des pêcheurs de Florianópolis,S.C. Un /R/, liquide dorsal, s’est introduit, dans le XIXémesiècle dansla région de colonisation des Açores et il a eu une évolution parallèleà celle de la liquide coronale apicale introduite précédemment parle portugais continental et celui des Iles. Aujourd’hui, la codavibrante se montre très fréquemment comme une fricative dorsale.Ce travail délimite deux processus locaux: l’enchaînement et lagémination. Il faut, alors, revoir la syllabe métrique, les échelles desonorité, les propriétés phonémiques qui impliquent la resyllabationde /R/. La phonologie multilinéaire en co-articulation avec lesprincipes fondamentaux de la phonétique accoustique permettentd’expliquer ces phénomènes dialectaux.

145-170

Authors: Ângela Maria V. Pinheiro; Anna Edith B. da Costa; Francis Ricardo R. Justi

This paper describes the results of a lexical decision task whichwas applied to groups of children in 1st – 4th grades. The mainobjective was to obtain preliminary measurements on which tobase the development of a final version of the same type of task,to be included in the computerized evaluation tool AVACLE (cognitive assessment of reading and writing abilities), already inthe final stage of development by Pinheiro and collaborators. 68children were presented individually with a mixed list of wordsand non-words and instructed to press the Yes-key for words andthe No-key for non-words. Decision reaction time (DRT) and errorpercentage were recorded. As expected, words were recognisedmore rapidly than non-words for all grades. In terms of error, thislexical effect was only significant for 3rd graders. The frequencyeffect was significant for both DRT and accuracy only for 2nd gradersand on DRT for 1st and 3rd graders. The results show how theorthographic lexicon develops, and are discussed according to theinformation processing approach. The test proved to be efficientand, with minimal modifications, will be used as part of the finalversion of the AVACLE evaluation tool.

193-219

Authors: Hildo Honório do Couto

The main objective of this article is to show that in order toappropriately understand the current concept of deaf communityit is necessary to make a distinction between language community(communauté de langue) and speech community (communauté deparole) in consideration. Since the language community of thedeaf is scattered among the territory of the community of the hearing,what really matters for the deaf in general is the speech community,i. e., the societies, clubs and similar organizations where theindividual can meet with his peers and talk about whatever comesto mind. The most fundamental feature of the deaf speechcommunity is its own sign language. It is in this speech communitythat the deaf find themselves at ease. It is there that they caneffectively manifest their identity.