The language impairment in two subjects at risk development in an enunciative perspective of the language working

This study aims to analyze the importance of a hypothesis of language working, considering the form/meaning relationships and the enunciative mechanisms and strategies in the analysis of language of two subjects with language impairment and risk to development. Two subjects and their families were followed from the first to the eighteenth month of age, through the Indexes of Risk to Child Development. Between 21 and 24 months, the subjects were filmed with relatives (mother, father, brother) and with the researcher, in a playful situation, in a similar way to what happens at home. The recordings were orthographically analyzed and transcribed and also analyzed by means of mechanisms and enunciative strategies, the relative form/meaning, trying to identify the function of language. While one of the subjects showed greater possibilities of vocal accomplishment, but with restricted enunciative strategies and mechanisms, the other one had almost no speech, inducing the adult to speak in his place. There were differences in the functioning of language, the resources to relate form and meaning, as well as the use of enunciative mechanisms and strategies between both subjects, which demonstrates the need to identify a hypothesis of language working in the evaluation process of the children language.

本研究旨在分析语言运作假说的重要性，该假说在分析两名存在语言障碍与发育风险的受试者的语言特征时，需考量形式-意义关系（form/meaning relationship）以及表述机制与策略（enunciative mechanisms and strategies）。研究团队对两名受试者及其家属自出生后第1个月至第18个月开展追踪研究，采用儿童发育风险指数进行评估。在21至24月龄阶段，受试者在与家庭场景相似的游戏情境中，分别与亲属（母亲、父亲、兄弟）及研究人员互动，期间全程被录制。录制内容经正字法分析与转写，并通过表述机制与策略、相对形式-意义关系展开分析，以识别语言的功能。其中一名受试者具备更强的语音产出潜力，但表述机制与策略受限；另一名受试者几乎无言语表达，会引导成人代为发言。两名受试者在语言运作、形式与意义关联的资源，以及表述机制与策略的使用方面均存在差异，这表明在儿童语言评估过程中，确立语言运作假说具有必要性。