Aquisição de proparoxítonas: acento, léxico e suas possíveis relações

Abstract

Study about proparoxytonic stress and the proparoxytonic lexicon during the acquisition of Portuguese as maternal language. We sought to verify ontogenic relationships between lexical acquisition and accentual acquisition in proparoxytone words, to wich was verified: a) phonological simplification recurses and strategies; b) occurrence of proparoxytonic words over different age groups; c) the ontogenic path of the standard proparoxytonic accent and the proparoxytonic lexicon; d) the individual regularity of children when producing proparoxytons lexically and accidentally; e) the correspondences between spontaneous evocation and standard accent evocation of proparoxytonic words. The research was carried out from 3 (three) distinct corpus; 2 (two) of them extracted from the speech of children from 1; 6 (one year and six months) to 4; 0 (four years), some studied longitudinally and others transversely; the 1 (one) corpus left was given by parental reports made available on a form for this purpose. In theoretical review section, there are the definition of the object of study (proparoxytone words) and studies directly or indirectly addressed to proparoxytones in Portuguese, at Theory and Linguistic Analysis, at Historical Linguistics, at Dialectology and Sociolinguistics and at Psycholinguistics. In data analysis, there are 3 (three) analysis sections: (i) the accent analysis, in which the data of the children studied longitudinally is described and interpreted; (ii) the lexical analysis, in which the 3 (three) corpus data is described and interpreted; (iii) the confluence accent-lexicon analysis, in order to extract the possible observable relations between these two linguistic levels. From thesecollected data, it is possible to identify observable relationships between acquisition of proparoxytonic accent and proparoxytonic lexicon, which is established after 2;01 (two years and one month); the data show that a higher productivity of the proparoxytonic accent influences the proparoxytonic lexical production, something corroborated with other previous studies that establish relationships between phonological and lexical acquisitions.