A relação entre a complexidade do sintagma nominal e o princípio da informação em narrativas orais e escritas de crianças portadoras e não portadoras de TDAH

Abstract

disorder, the complexity of noun phrases, hereafter NPs, and its relationship with the principle of information. For this work, we used a corpus of 16 narratives, eight oral and eight written, produced by students of the 3rd cycle of Primary Basic Education, from Centro Pedagógico(CP) of UFMG. These narratives were produced by two groups: Group Experimental Disorder (GET) and Group Control Average Attention (GCM). This corpus was given to this study by Prof. Renata Amaral Rocha de Matos, a teacher from CP. As an initial hypothesis, based on the studies of Lima and Tenuta (in press), it was believed that, proportionally, theGET would tend to produce more less complex NPs (pronouns and also ellipses) than the GCM group. Another initial hypothesis of this study was that, by producing less complex NPs, the GET would tend to have problems with referentiality and, therefore, the principle of information, such as postulated by Chafe (1990) and Prince (1992) would be impaired. As a result, it was noticed that, in general, the GET tends to produce more pronouns and ellipses than the GCM, however, from a statistical perspective, the complexity of NPs are not a significant criterion in the linguistic characterization of the production of children affected by ADHD. Concerning the principle of information, it was noted that the GET group tends to use less complex NPs where it would be needed, for the interlocutor to know the referent, the use of more complex NPs. However, this phenomenon does not occur often enough from a statistical point of view. Finally, it was noted that the first hypothesis of this study was notachieved from a statistical perspective, indicating that further studies, with a larger corpus, more informants, more textual typologies, among others, may confirm the trends revealed here only through a simple counting.