THE APPROPRIATION OF THE SYLLABIC STRUCTURE CCV IN ORALITY AND WRITING OF MV

Abstract

ABSTRACT

This paper aims to analyse the acquisition process of orality and writing by a child (referred here as MV), with Down Syndrome (DS). Our purpose is to elaborate an intervention method to help anyone who has problem to acquire or develop oral or written abilities and thus enable it to appropriate the Portuguese ramified attack (CCV). We defend the hypothesis that MV can acquire or adjust its representation on the hierarchy of the Portuguese syllabic constituents through specialized help. Based on Vygostisky, we argue that all children, even those with intellectual deficit, learn language skills if they are given the necessary conditions. We consider, according to the assumptions of discursive neurolinguistics, that language (and the linguistic system) is an activity that is learned through interactions with others. We analyzed the syllabic structures of the Portuguese by the non-linear phonological model, discussing the theoretical assumptions of Vygotsky (1997) and using Abaurre and Coudry (2008) to deal with intermediate constructs as a sign of sense construction. All the interventions of this research were performed at the Neurolinguistics Laboratory, State University of Southwest of Bahia, between 2016 and 2017, by systematized procedures, and the data were qualitatively analyzed. We could verify that the expert's help was decisive for MV to acquire autonomy in the acquisition of orality and writing of words that have ramified attack. In addition, we could see that this intervention also allowed the child to reach other advances in language issues, which awakens a look at the subject and his language beyond the syndromic condition.