This study aims to analyze the importance of a hypothesis of language working, considering the form/meaning relationships and the enunciative mechanisms and strategies in the analysis of language of two subjects with language impairment and risk to development. Two subjects and their families were followed from the first to the eighteenth month of age, through the Indexes of Risk to Child Development. Between 21 and 24 months, the subjects were filmed with relatives (mother, father, brother) and with the researcher, in a playful situation, in a similar way to what happens at home. The recordings were orthographically analyzed and transcribed and also analyzed by means of mechanisms and enunciative strategies, the relative form/meaning, trying to identify the function of language. While one of the subjects showed greater possibilities of vocal accomplishment, but with restricted enunciative strategies and mechanisms, the other one had almost no speech, inducing the adult to speak in his place. There were differences in the functioning of language, the resources to relate form and meaning, as well as the use of enunciative mechanisms and strategies between both subjects, which demonstrates the need to identify a hypothesis of language working in the evaluation process of the children language.
Language Development; Child Development; Risk; Child Health
