A aquisição da linguagem: os gestos ritmados e o contínuo vocal

Abstract

The acquisition of language is a complex process that involves both biological and social factors. This research discusses the various forms that language presents, focusing on rhythmic gestures leading to it. McNeill (1995) brings some typologies of the gestures and oral productions of the child, and Barros (2012) develops a hypothesis of continuous vocal that will be approached later in this study. The aim of this study is to know the relationship between rhythmic gestures performed on 12 and 24 months old baby and the speech production. The research counts on the participation of a dyad (mother-baby), in which the baby had between 12 and 24 months old, that is a period of time to understand both the emergency phase of gesticulation and verbal production. Data collection was done through video recordings, and the corpus used in this work is part of the Laboratory of Acquisition of Speech and Writing (LAFE) of the UFPB. In the analysis of these data, the software Eudico Linguistic Annotator (ELAN), a professional tool that enables the creation of annotations, visualization and search of the same through video and audio data simultaneously. We realize that rhythmic gestures are concomitant to vocal production and it occurs mainly in more playful contexts with objects, chants and storytelling. For this reason, gesture production is important in the acquisition of the child language and it starts from a primordial interaction between mother and baby.