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En - 1982 0216 Rcefac 17 05 01633 PDF
En - 1982 0216 Rcefac 17 05 01633 PDF
ABSTRACT
Lexical development is directly associated with the ability to understand and produce various types of
meaning. Mental lexicon is accessed to represent an object, an attribute or any other information. The
word learning and association processes are necessary for lexical development. The purpose of this
study is to analyze and compile findings about the relationship between lexical development, speech
disorders, phonological awareness, school performance and auditory processing through literature
review. The scientific productions found in this review suggest the relevance of lexical development
to phonological acquisition and to the subsequent written language acquisition. As for phonology, the
articles expose the importance of appropriate lexical development to effective phonological acquisition.
of the literature for planning actions of prevention of Health, studies on subjects aged equal or older
of disorders and promotion of positive environments 12 years and that did not submit freely available
for the language development of the children. The complete texts were excluded.
purpose of this study is to analyze and compile The data analysis was performed in two steps
findings about the relationship between lexical and in a descriptive and analytical way. First, the
development, speech disorders, phonological location data, year, authorship, purpose, method-
awareness, school performance and auditory ology, age groups, main results and conclusions of
processing through literature review. the article were identified. Then, a critical analysis of
the articles and discussion on the main findings and
METHODS advances showed by the studies was performed.
In the vocabulary subtheme it was verified that It is worth mentioning the studies10,11 that have
three of the articles found4,6,7 studied the acquisition as subject the acquisition of the expressive and
of words that have a lexical meaning, being that receptive vocabulary, especially in the comparison
two4,8 evaluated the ability of nominal evocation between the expressive and receptive modalities
according to certain figures, and one7 studied the of vocabulary acquisition. It must be highlighted
most frequent verb types used by the age group that the literature points to higher performance in
studied. Only one of studies8 correlate the presence receptive vocabulary tests9.
of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) with the The international literature has stated the impor-
performance in naming tests, being that children tance of the study on lexical development taking into
with this diagnosis showed better performance in consideration the performance in expressive and
the naming test as in the drawing definition tests. receptive vocabulary tasks24.
Regarding the study of the typology of the most used The data analysis found that a study12 corre-
verbs, the analyzed variables were age and gender7. lates the vocabulary acquisition of children with
The variable age related to the lexical development Down syndrome with children without alterations
of children with SLI should be studied with caution, and that present similar cognitive development.
since the language skills of children with specific The study suggested that the lexical performance,
language impairments evolve more slowly so that both expressive as receptive, of subjects with Down
the investigation measure should consider the syndrome is lower than of children with proper
language development of the individual9. It is worth development, even when they are paired according
noting that the assumption that the effects of the to mental age.
age may vary according to the interactions between It is noteworthy that no articles describing
the interference source, nature of the target, and the influence of the family environment and the
the perceived task characteristics, i.e., the literature importance of social relationships on the lexical
draws attention to the possible effects of the acquisition and development were found, as well as
perceived task characteristics on the response and the impacts on the child population, however, there
semantic access in children23. are studies showing the importance of the parental
communicative style and profile for the overall
language development25,26.
Figure 2 – Summary of the research works correlating lexical with phonological developments
In the vocabulary and phonology subtheme, Language-ABFW, the lexical field (shapes and
seven articles2,6,13-17 were found and four of colors) showed differences between the results. In
them6,13,15-16 compared the performance of children one of these studies13, differences with statistical
with typical language development with children significance between the study and control groups
with speech and language disorders. The literature were found and, in the other15 these differences
reminds the interaction between phonology and were not reported by the authors.
vocabulary, early acquisition of these subsystems Two articles evaluated the vocabulary according
and the importance of the skills acquired for the later to the degree of speech disorder2,14. Only in one
stages of language development27, 28. of them2 the children who presented mild speech
It is noteworthy that six articles2,6,13-16 that used disorder had higher performance than that of
the Test of Children’s Language-ABFW presented children with other degrees of speech disorder.
case-control type studies. By correlating the perfor- Noteworthy is a Japanese study that showed
mance between the control group (CG) and the interdependence between speech production and
study group (SG), it was possible to note that in lexical development as, according to the author, the
some research works6,13,15,16, children with language child’s ability to produce a particular phonological
delay or speech and language disorders showed structure depends on the frequency and amount of
poorer performance than other children in all tests exposure to this estructure29.
performed. Only one of the articles17 included the tracking
In two studies that evaluated the expressive test of articulation disorders.
vocabulary13,15 through the Test of Children’s
Figure 3 – Summary of the research works correlating lexical development with school performance
In the lexicon and school performance subtheme, speech in the relevant test according to the increase
three articles5,18,19 that analyzed the performance of the age of the subjects of the study.
in vocabulary tests of children of different stages The literature shows that the lexical development
of early childhood education were found. It was
directly influences the acquisition of writing, i.e., to
observed that most of the children aged five, six and
write any word, from the low frequency ones to the
seven years showed poorer performance than the
expected average for the age. It was also observed writing of pseudowords, it is necessary to access a
that children who attended the first stage of early previous lexical5. There are also indications on the
childhood education had a better performance importance of lexical development for the child’s
than the children of the third stage18. In one of the development in all curricular areas, as it supports
studies19, it was found a decrease of the descriptive instruction understanding and solving of problems30.
Figure 4 – Summary of the research works correlating lexical development with phonological
awareness
Oral language difficulties, especially those related a study21 correlating the performance of the subjects
to vocabulary and phonology, may be related to of the study in the expressive vocabulary test with
auditory processing disorders, since hearing is the the results of the auditory processing tests found a
most important sense for the language acquisition21. positive correlation between them, i.e., the better
Taking these facts into account, when analyzing the performance in the auditory processing test the
the vocabulary and auditory processing subtheme, better the performance in the vocabulary test.
Figure 6 – Chronology of studies according to the most discussed topics in each year
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