é feita por meio de tarefas de leitura em voz alta. Essas tarefas consistem de experimentos em que se apresentam aos sujeitos, ora uma lista de palavras reais, ora uma de não-palavras, sendo-lhes solicitado que leiam em voz alta os itens de cada lista (um de cada vez), o mais rápido e corretamente possível. Medidas de tempo de reação (TR) de emissão de pronúncia e/ou de taxas de precisão são registradas. Alternativamente, as palavras reais e as nãopalavras são apresentadas juntas em uma mesma lista. Esse é o procedimento adotado por Capovilla, Capovilla e Macedo (1998), com crianças, e por Parente, Hosogi e Lecours (1997) com adultos portadores de dislexia Avaliação Cognitiva de Leitura e Escrita
This study investigates the role of prosody in the reading aloud of dyslexic children. Ten dyslexic and 30 non-dyslexic control children (mean age 9.5 and 9.9 years, respectively) were recorded when reading a text of appropriate level and subsequently asked to retell it and tested on its comprehension. The data were analysed acoustically by the WinPitchPro programme. The temporal and intonational processing of reading of the two groups were contrasted and revealed unusual characteristics of the dyslexic group with respect to what follows: (1) temporal processing (reduced speeds of reading and articulation and alterations in the number and duration of pauses); (2) variation of the fundamental frequency (limited ability to vary the melody at the phrasal and phonemic level); and (3) vowel stress patterning (difficulty in producing typical stress patterns, and of marking the pre-stressed and stressed syllables). Fulfilling its objective, the present study promotes advances in the understanding of the functioning of prosody in reading aloud in dyslexia.
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