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Estudos e Pesquisas em Psicologia

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GUIMARAES, Silvia Brilhante  and  MOTA, Márcia Maria Peruzzi Elia da. Morphological awareness and spellingA relationship beyond phonological awareness?. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2018, vol.18, n.2, pp.608-623. ISSN 1808-4281.

This study investigates the unique contribution of morphological awareness in the different spellings of the Portuguese in Brazil. The study included 114 children of 2 and 4 years of elementary education at a public school. The children were evaluated on orthographic knowledge measure by spelling test with different orthographic difficulties, phonological awareness, morphological awareness, verbal and nonverbal cognitive abilities. The results showed that morphological awareness has a small but independent contribution of phonological awareness for spelling words with contextual, morphological and irregular rules. The influence of phonological awareness was higher in contextual and morphological words. In the words with irregular spellings, morphological awareness of the contribution was higher than the phonological awareness. These results suggest that awareness of minimum units of meaning in the word can be a key skill for the spelling development.

Keywords : morphological awareness; phonological awareness; spelling.

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