What is a word: linguistic awareness in children from 6 to 11 years old, Brazilian Portuguese speakers

Abstract

This paper is placed in word awareness field and the relation with the levels of mental representation postulates in the model of representation description (KARMILOFF-SMITH, 1992), in Brazilian Portuguese speaker’s children. It was developed in four tests that aimed to descript the path in which the children representation becomes more malleable over time. Thus, it allows the emergency about aware assessment and about the implicit knowledge in relation to the notion of word. From the application of these texts and from the answers survey we hope to obtain a sample about the children understanding about the notion of word and about the implicit knowledge for the mind and how it becomes explicit in it. We believe in this work relevance because it enables an explication in the mental representations that found the knowledge about linguistic awareness presented in children.