Psicolinguística e leitura : um estudo sobre consciência morfológica e competência gramatical no processamento de palavras derivadas em português brasileiro

Abstract

Considering reading and its importance morphological awareness has been the object of study in education, not unlike experimental psycholinguistics, a field of it. However, little has been defined about what it represents. This morphological awareness, because it is not a simple process, includes a range of other processes within it. This dissertation seeks to clarify the relationship between morphological awareness and morphological competence through reading processes and to infer the functionality of metacognition in these processes, focusing on morphological competence. For that, a test was applied to verify the performance of morphological awareness and morphological competence, adapted according to Law et al. (2017) of the hidden priming of words. The stimuli used were suffixed nouns, generating six experimental conditions, including two distractors created specifically for this dissertation. The test was created via PCIbex. The application presented two steps. A test step, a training step, and both an example to elucidate the experimental functionality. In this experiment, a sample of 35 subjects at the university level, monolingual, right-handed, speakers of Brazilian Portuguese was used. The results obtained point to the fact that the pseudo-derivation took a longer processing time because of the morphological condition because there would have to be an identification of the morpheme and metacognition to conclude that there is no significant equivalence between the words. Among the conclusions, it was considered the need to clarify future studies that distinguish a better conception of morphological awareness and morphological competence, taking linguistics as a basis.