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Co-occurrence of phonological traits in orthographic replacement of sonorant phonemes
Suellen Vaz1, Lourenço Chacon2
1Programa de Pós-graduação em Estudos Linguísticos, Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP - São José do Rio Preto (SP), Brasil.
Purpose:
This short presentation aims to indicate phonological features inherent to the sonorant consonant class (nasals and liquids) that might be relatively problematic in the orthographic records of these phonemes.
Methods:
orthographic replacement in text compositions from children in the first grade of elementary school was analyzed. Data analysis was performed according to the Padrão de Aquisição de Contrastes (PAC).
Results:
Results reveal that replacement was distributed between the two classes, and within each subclass, relatively unstable phonological contrasts were detected in the orthographic records of these phonemes.
Conclusion:
This relative instability of contrasts pointed out phonological issues, as well as issues related to the orthographic complexity of each these segments, thus indicating a non-direct relation between speech and spelling.
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