%0 Journal Article %T O desenvolvimento da consci¨ºncia morfol¨®gica nos est¨¢gios iniciais da alfabetiza£¿£¿o %A Mota %A M¨¢rcia Maria Peruzzi Elia da %A Besse %A Anne-Sophie %A Dias %A Jaqueline %A Paiva %A N¨¢dia %A Mansur-Lisboa %A Stella %A Silva %A Danielle Andrade %J Psicologia: Reflex£¿o e Cr¨ªtica %D 2011 %I Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul %R 10.1590/S0102-79722011000100017 %X evidence from recent studies has shown that morphological awareness relates to both reading and spelling acquisition. however, the age of acquisition of this ability is still a matter of controversy. literature review indentifies two groups of researchers: those that think that this development starts late and those for whom it starts early and interacts with schooling. this paper is the first part of a longitudinal study which looks at the development of morphological awareness in brazilian portuguese. five tasks are used to evaluate 6 to 9 year-old children's morphological awareness. the results show that this ability interacts with schooling at an early age. %K morphological awareness %K metalinguistic awareness %K morphology %K metalinguistic development. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0102-79722011000100017&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en