Unconventional segmentation of word found in text of the fifth grade of Elementary School: a prosodic analysis

Abstract

This paper analyzes unconventional segmentation of word found in six different texts from students of the sixth grade of Elementary School. Through quantitative and qualitative analysis, we describe the prosodic characteristics that may be motivated the hyper and hippossegmentation of words found in of 606 investigated texts. We present evidence from the analysis of other prosodic structures identified in corpus, to be the spelling of the clitic elements a challenge to the students of the sixth grade of the Elementary School. In respect which parto f speech belonging clitics typed unconventionally, we conclude that these spellings relate to the difficulty in spell those students grammatical categories expressed by non-accented syllable words, such as prepositions (“em, de, com”) and pronouns (“me, lhe, lo”).