This study aims to investigate how Chinese-Portuguese bilingual children understand the progressive (imperfective) and the simple past (perfective) in different contexts in Portuguese. We also want to understand whether extralinguistic factors, such as linguistic experience and the age at which children are regularly exposed to Portuguese, influence the acquisition and comprehension of aspectual morphology. We ...
This article presents a study on the syntactic development of children attending the 1st cycle of basic education based on their writing. We seek to (i) identify which are the predominant clause articulation processes at an early stage of compositional writing from the connectors that emerge at this stage; (ii) determine if the clause articulation processes evidence syntactic knowledge about the coordination an...
In this article, we present an assessment instrument aimed at diagnosing oral language and reading and writing skills in children attending pre-school (5 years) and the early years of primary school. The instrument was mainly designed for the school context, and it was developed in collaboration with kindergarten educators and primary teachers who participated in PIPALE - Preventive Intervention Project for Rea...