Bilinguismo e reconhecimento de fala no silêncio e no ruído em adultos
Bilingualism and speech recognition in silence and noise in adults
Geise Corrêa Ferreira, Enma Mariángel Ortiz Torres, Michele Vargas Garcia, Sinéia Neujahr Santos, Maristela Julio Costa
Resumo
Objetivo: Comparar a habilidade de reconhecimento de sentenças no silêncio e no ruído em indivíduos normo-ouvintes monolíngues, falantes do português brasileiro e, bilíngues, falantes do português brasileiro e do alemão, e do português brasileiro e italiano, bem como analisar a influência do período de aquisição da segunda língua no desempenho dos bilíngues.
Método: Participaram da pesquisa 87 indivíduos entre a faixa etária de 18 e 55 anos de idade, normo-ouvintes, os quais foram distribuídos em: grupo controle, composto de 30 monolíngues falantes do português brasileiro; grupo estudo alemão, 31 bilíngues simultâneos falantes do português e do alemão como segunda língua; grupo estudo italiano, formado por 26 bilíngues sucessivos, falantes do português e do italiano como segunda língua. Por meio do teste Listas de Sentenças em Português Brasileiro, foram obtidos seus Limiares de Reconhecimento de Sentenças no Silêncio e no Ruído.
Resultados: No silêncio, não houve diferenças estatisticamente significantes de desempenho tanto quando comparados os indivíduos bilíngues e monolíngues como quando comparados os grupos bilíngues. Por sua vez, no ruído, verificou-se diferença significante entre os grupos bilíngues, em relação ao monolíngue. Entretanto, quando comparado o desempenho dos grupos bilíngues, não se observou diferença significante entre eles.
Conclusão: O bilinguismo influenciou positivamente o desenvolvimento de habilidades auditivas, que repercutiram em desempenhos superiores dos bilíngues no reconhecimento de fala na presença de ruído, e o período de aquisição da segunda língua não influenciou o desempenho dos bilíngues.
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Abstract
Purpose: To compare the ability to recognize sentences in silence and in noise in monolingual normal-hearing Brazilian Portuguese speakers, and bilingual speakers of Brazilian Portuguese and German, and bilingual speakers of Brazilian Portuguese and Italian, as well as to analyze the influence of age of second language acquisition on the performance of bilinguals.
Methods: 87 normal-hearing individuals aged between 18 and 55 years participated of this research. They were categorized into: Control Group, composed by 30 monolingual Brazilian Portuguese speakers; German Research Group, 31 simultaneous bilingual native speakers of Portuguese and speakers of German as a second language and; Italian Research Group, consisting of 26 successive bilinguals, native speakers of Portuguese and speakers of Italian as a second language. The Sentence List Test in Brazilian Portuguese was used to measure their Sentence Recognition Thresholds in Silence and Noise.
Results: In silence, there were no statistically significant differences in performance when comparing the bilingual to the monolingual individuals, and when comparing the bilingual speakers among themselves. On the other hand, in noise, there was a significant difference between the bilingual groups and the monolingual one. However, there were no significant differences between the bilingual groups when their performance was compared.
Conclusion: Bilingualism positively influenced the development of language and listening skills, which led the bilinguals to outperform in speech recognition in the presence of noise. Also, the period of a second language acquisition did not influence bilingual performance
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Submitted date:
10/04/2018
Accepted date:
02/21/2019
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