Relationships between acquisition of auditory perception and orthography learning: sonorant consonants under discussion

Abstract

We compared the relationships between acquisition of auditory perception and the acquisition of sonorant consonants spelling in children of the first two grades of elementary school. The comparison was based on a procedure of identifying and writing the same set of words that presented phonological contrasts between them. As to the results, it was found: (1) gradation in the acquisition of subclasses within a larger class; (2) matches and mismatches between the two types of task; (3) increased adjustments in spelling and more mismatches in auditory perception with increasing enrollment. This set of results indicates, therefore, the complexity of the relationships between the acquisition of auditory perception and the acquisition of spelling, since, once contacted, their journey together at the same time promotes links and outcomes between them.