Canonicidade silábica e aprendizagem da escrita

In this paper we examine the influence of the syllable structure of spoken Portuguese on the acquisition of written forms. Our main hypothesis is that spoken language offers a first model for the construction of written forms and so, by identifying the syllabic coda as a point of instability in spoken Portuguese, since it is subject to many phonological processes, we may predict that students will also present writing variations exactly at these same points. Our investigation takes into account structural as well as non-structural factors and we conclude that there is a strong correlation between instability in the syllabic coda and variation in their weitten representation