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Control, restructuring and temporal interpretation
Fiéis, Alexandra; Madeira, AnaUIDB/03213/2020 UIDP/03213/2020; In this paper, we investigate whether there is a correlation between the temporal properties of control verbs and the possibility of restructuring with obligatory control predicates, taking clitic climbing as a diagnostic for restructuring. We review the findings of previous studies on earlier stages of Portuguese and on (non-)standard varieties of contemporary European Portugue...
Efeitos do input na aquisição de PE L2
Teixeira, Joana; Fiéis, Alexandra; Madeira, AnaUIDB/03213/2020 UIDP/03213/2020; Este estudo investiga a aquisição de objetos nulos em português europeu (PE) como L2, utilizando uma tarefa de produção oral induzida e duas tarefas de juízos de aceitabilidade rápidos (escrita e oral). Os participantes são 25 falantes de PE L1 e 30 aprendentes adultos de espanhol L1 e PE L2 nos níveis intermédio a quase nativo. Os resultados mostram que os falantes de PE L1 e L...
Are non-native speakers sensitive to microvariation in anaphora resolution?
Teixeira, Joana; Fiéis, Alexandra; Madeira, AnaUIDB/03213/2020 UIDP/03213/2020 UIDB/00022/2020.
Microvariation in the resolution of pronominal subjects in Romance
Fiéis, Alexandra; Madeira, Ana; Teixeira, JoanaUIDB/03213/2020 UIDP/03213/2020; This study investigates how adult native speakers of two null subject Romance languages, European Portuguese (EP) and Italian, interpret null and overt pronominal subjects in intrasentential contexts. Participants were 30 speakers of EP and 30 of Italian. Each language group was administered two multiple-choice tasks (speeded and untimed), which crossed the following variables: ...
Corpora and L2 acquisition
Lozano, Cristóbal; Teixeira, Joana; Madeira, AnaUIDB/03213/2020 UIDP/03213/2020; This paper presents the L1 Portuguese – L2 Spanish subcorpus of Corpus Escrito del Español L2 (CEDEL2), a new methodological resource for second language acquisition (SLA) research, which is freely searchable and downloadable (http://cedel2.learnercorpora.com). CEDEL2 is a large-scale, multi-L1 learner corpus of L2 Spanish which contains written productions from learners at all ...
Microvariação na resolução de sujeitos pronominais
Madeira, Ana; Fiéis, Alexandra; Teixeira, JoanaUIDB/03213/2020 UIDP/03213/2020; The present study investigates the resolution of null and overt subject pronouns in intrasentential contexts, considering the role of animacy in antecedent assignment. Participants were 15 native speakers of EP and 14 of Italian. Each language group was administered two multiple choice tasks (speeded and untimed), which had a 2x2 design, crossing the following variables: animacy...
Efeitos de dominância linguística e de tempo de exposição formal à língua na pr...
Tomaz, Margarida; Lobo, Maria; Madeira, Ana; Soares-Jesel, Carla; Vaz, StéphanieUIDB/03213/2020 UIDP/03213/2020; This study investigates the effects of two external linguistic variables – language dominance and time of formal exposure – on the production and placement of clitic pronouns of Portuguese-French bilingual children. Using two elicited production tasks and a parental sociolinguistic questionnaire, we show that language dominance plays a role in rates of omission and rates of clit...
Controlo e infinitivos flexionados em português L2
Fiéis, Alexandra; Madeira, AnaUIDB/03213/2020 UIDP/03213/2020; It is known that knowledge of the interpretative properties of the standard inflected infinitive develops late both in L1 and L2 acquisition, and that subject control with most verbs is acquired early in L1. In this study we focus on a context which has not been addressed so far, and investigate how the interpretation of the null subjects of inflected infinitival complements of ...
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Gramacho, Carolina; Madeira, Ana; Martins, Ana Cláudia Moreira; Alexandre, Nélia; Pinto, Jorge; Correia, SusanaUID/LIN/03213/2013 UID/LIN/03213/2019; Placement tests are a form of assessment that aims at placing students in appropriate levels. Placement tests must, therefore, be based on validity and reliability arguments to ensure appropriateness and consistency of assessment. Despite the growing interest in Portuguese as a Foreign Language (PFL), both nationally and internationally, to our knowledge there is no valida...
Efeitos de dominância linguística e de tempo de exposição formal à língua na pr...
Tomaz, Margarida; Lobo, Maria; Madeira, Ana; Soares-Jesel, Carla; Vaz, StéphanieUID/LIN/03213/2019