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Mariana Martins Appezzato¹, Maria Mercedes Saraiva Hackerott², Clara Regina Brandão de Avila¹

¹Departamento de Fonoaudiologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.

|May 24, 2018

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This study developed Brazilian Portuguese pseudowords to test auditory discrimination in schoolchildren. Results showed good internal consistency, but age and school grade did not impact performance.

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Area of Science:

Linguistics
Speech-Language Pathology
Educational Psychology

Background:

Auditory discrimination is crucial for language acquisition.
A lack of standardized tools for assessing auditory discrimination in Brazilian Portuguese schoolchildren exists.
Pseudowords offer a controlled method to evaluate phonemic discrimination without relying on semantic knowledge.

Purpose of the Study:

To create a list of Brazilian Portuguese pseudowords for auditory discrimination assessment.
To evaluate the internal consistency of the pseudoword test items.
To examine the influence of school grade on auditory discrimination performance in children.

Main Methods:

Sixty schoolchildren (3rd-5th grade) in Sao Paulo, Brazil, participated.
Forty-eight minimal pairs of pseudowords, differing by a single phoneme, were created.
Data were analyzed using Cronbach's Alpha, Spearman's Correlation, and Bonferroni tests.

Main Results:

Twenty pseudoword pairs were removed, leaving 28 items with good internal consistency (α=0.84).
The mean score for correct discrimination was 30.79 (SD=3.68).
No significant correlation was found between age, school performance, and discrimination ability, nor differences across school grades.

Conclusions:

The developed pseudoword list demonstrates good internal consistency for assessing auditory discrimination.
Auditory discrimination of speech sounds in this cohort was not significantly influenced by age or school grade.