Bilingualism: classification of mistakes in the rapid automatized naming task

• Grant number: 17/20005-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date until: December 01, 2017
• End date until: November 30, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Speech Therapy
• Principal Investigator: Clara Regina Brandão de Avila
• Grantee: Esther Simonato dos Santos
• Host Institution: Escola Paulista de Medicina (EPM). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus São Paulo. São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Bilingualism is an important tool for human communication. Reaserches show that bilingual individuals demonstrate advantage in executive control, despite of difficulties in lexical access. The Rapid Naming task is used to measure the lexical access speed and a great number of studies suggest that the ability of rapid naming is related to reading performance. This study proposes to describe and classify the mistakes in a rapid naming task performed by healthy Brazilian bilingual (Portuguese-English) and monolingual schoolchildren, between the ages of 7 and 9. We will analyse the performance of 60 bilingual children and 60 monolingual children in the Rapid Naming task and categorize and describe their mistakes. Our objective is to understand whether bilingualism may interfere, and how, in the processing of phonological information related to automatic lexical access, associating this process to naming and reading ability. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

ESTHER SIMONATO; ANNE TAFFIN DHEURSEL BALDISSERI; CLARA REGINA BRANDÃO DE AVILA. Bilinguismo e Nomeação Automática Rápida: efeitos da alternância de línguas sobre o acesso lexical e a velocidade de leitura. CoDAS, v. 33, n. 4, 2021-07-02. (17/20005-8)