Processamento da morfologia derivacional do português brasileiro (PB) por crianças com dificuldades de leitura

Abstract

This study investigates the processing of derivational morphology in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) by children with and without reading difficulties. The literature has suggested a difficulty of children with reading disorders in processing morphologically complex words, which refers to how derived words are represented in the mental lexicon of the carriers of this disorder and they processed. Another possible explanation could be that such a child has problems in acknowledgment passage graphically sublexical word for lexical corresponding phonic form. In both of these cases, this disorder is reflected on the reading competence as well as on the acquisition of rules underlying the derivational processes of word formation in BP. In order to gain more evidences about this question, an experimental task was conducted, using the Morphosemantical Decision Paradigm (BESSE; VIDIGAL DE PAULA; GOMBERT, 2005), an adaptation of which was used by Mota (2008). It were tested 25 children without reading difficulties, divided into two age groups, children aged 7-8 years and 9-10 years, the which served as controls, and 16 children with reading difficulties, also divided into two age groups and also aged 7-8 years and 9-10 years. The results indicate that children with reading disorder that acquire BP have greater difficulty reading and processing morphologically complex words, compared to children without this difficulty acquiring this language.