Comparative study of segmental and prosodic acquisition in premature children and the term

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https://doi.org/10.22481/el.v17i2.5334

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Phonology; Prosody; Prematurity; Language Acquisition.

Abstract

This study aims to describe and compare the acquisition of speech sounds and lower prosodic units in the prosodic hierarchy between term and premature children. Four premature and three full-term children aged between 12 and 30 months participated in the study. Data were collected through spontaneous speech evaluation. It was verified that the movements of centripetal-centrifugal analysis directed the production of speech of the subjects. There was a difference regarding vowel filling, suggesting the ability to structure and organize sentences, since it is the vowels that enable children to learn the syntactic regularities of languages.

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Miguel Oliveira Jr, Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL / Brazil)

Miguel Oliveira Júnior holds a PhD in Linguistics from Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada). He worked as an associate researcher at the University of Southern Denmark (Odense, Denmark), at the Institute for Computational and Theoretical Linguistics, ILTEC (Lisbon, Portugal), at the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, MPI (Leipzig, Germany), and at the University of St Andrews (St Andrews, Scotland, UK). He has collaborated in research at FitchLab, University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria) and Language Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA). He was a visiting researcher at the Electronic Research Laboratory (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA) and a visiting professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Davis, California. He works as an associate professor of linguistics at the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL) and is currently president of the Brazilian Association of Linguistics (ABRALIN). It mainly works in the following areas: prosody, experimental phonetics, psycholinguistics and linguistic documentation.

Luzia Miscow da Cruz Payão, State University of Health Sciences of Alagoas (UNCISAL / Brazil)

Luzia Miscow da Cruz Payão is a PhD and Master in Linguistics from the Federal University of Alagoas - UFAL. She is Adjunct Professor of Speech Therapy, composing the Maternal Child and Adolescent Health Center - Health Sciences Center of the State University of Health Sciences of Alagoas - UNCISAL, with clinical speech and hearing disorders in human communication disorders. He develops researches with the following topics: typical and atypical phonological acquisition, acquisition of language in children with a history of prematurity, phonological disorders, diagnosis and speech-language therapy in speech-language disorders.

Daniela Monique Tavares dos Santos, Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL / Brazil)

Daniela Monique Tavares dos Santos holds a master's degree in linguistics from the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), a postgraduate degree in Neuropsychology from the Faculdade Campos Elíseos (FCE) and a BA in Speech-Language Pathology from the State University of Health Sciences of Alagoas - UNCISAL. It acts clinically in the disorders of human communication, related to oral and written language.

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2019-06-30

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OLIVEIRA JR, M.; PAYÃO, L. M. da C.; SANTOS, D. M. T. dos. Comparative study of segmental and prosodic acquisition in premature children and the term. Language Studies, [S. l.], v. 17, n. 2, p. 31-42, 2019. DOI: 10.22481/el.v17i2.5334. Disponível em: https://periodicos2.uesb.br/index.php/estudosdalinguagem/article/view/5334. Acesso em: 2 jul. 2024.

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Vol. 17 No. 2 (2019): Estudos da Língua(gem) - ISSN: 1982-0534

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