PURPOSE: (1) To verify the existence (or not) of hesitation marks in the beginning of utterances in children's discourse; and (2) to determine to what extent the presence/absence of these marks could be explained by retrievable facts in the production conditions of their discourses. METHODS: Interview situations with four children aged 5-6 years attending Kindergarten level II in a public preschool at the time of the data collection were analyzed. The interviews were recorded on audio and video, inside a soundproof booth, with high fidelity equipment. Afterwards, the recordings were transcribed by six transcribers that were specially trained for this task. Transcription rules that prioritized the analyses of hesitations were used. For the analysis of retrievable facts in the production conditions of children's discourse, the dialogic pair question-answer was adopted. RESULTS: A correlation between presence/absence of hesitation in the beginning of utterances in children and type of question (open/closed) made by the collocutor was observed. When the question was closed ended, the utterances were preferably initiated without hesitation marks, and when the question was open ended, the utterances were preferably initiated with hesitation marks. CONCLUSION: The presence/absence of hesitation marks in the beginning of utterances in children was found to be dependent on the production conditions of their discourses.
RESUMO Objetivo verificar se as hesitações ocorreriam, preferencialmente, em posições fortes ou fracas de quatro dos constituintes prosódicos: enunciado fonológico, frase entonacional, frase fonológica e grupo clítico. Método os dados foram extraídos de um banco composto por 147 situações de entrevistas realizadas com crianças de 5-6 anos de idade. Para análise dos constituintes prosódicos, foi utilizado o princípio da proeminência relativa. A partir desse princípio, foram consideradas como em posição forte as ocorrências hesitativas identificadas em elementos proeminentes na organização de cada um dos constituintes prosódicos e, como em posição fraca, as ocorrências hesitativas identificadas em partes de constituintes que circundam as posições proeminentes. Foram detectadas, pelos juízes, 2.399 ocorrências hesitativas. Resultados foram identificadas, respectivamente, em posições fortes e fracas os seguintes totais de hesitações: (1) no enunciado fonológico = 305 (28,37%) e 770 (71,63%); (2) na frase entonacional = 285 (20,67%) e 1094 (79,33%); (3) na frase fonológica = 129 (16,49%) e 653 (83,51%); e (4) no grupo clítico = 154 (15,21%) e 859 (84,79%). Conclusão embora as ocorrências hesitativas tenham sido identificadas em posições fortes em todos os constituintes prosódicos analisados, houve prevalência pela posição fraca. Esse resultado corrobora estudos que afirmam que as hesitações ocorreriam em porções prosodicamente não nucleares. Além dessa confirmação, os resultados reforçam a eficácia do modelo da fonologia prosódica em relação ao princípio da proeminência relativa.
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