Baterias de avaliação da linguagem e provas de avaliação da consciência sintática incluem frequentemente tarefas de avaliação da consciência sintática através de tarefas de juízo de aceitabilidade e correção. Contudo, nem sempre é claro qual o processo linguístico específico que está a ser avaliado. Neste trabalho, através de uma tarefa de juízo de aceitabilidade e de correção, avaliou-se a sensibilidade de cri...
Baterias de avaliação da linguagem e provas de avaliação da consciência sintática incluem frequentemente tarefas de avaliação da consciência sintática através de tarefas de juízo de aceitabilidade e correção. Contudo, nem sempre é claro qual o processo linguístico específico que está a ser avaliado. Neste trabalho, através de uma tarefa de juízo de aceitabilidade e de correção, avaliou-se a sensibilidade de cri...
This study investigates the intervention effects on the processing of standard clefts by adult speakers of European Portuguese, focusing on the semantic feature of animacy. Using a self-paced reading task combined with a picture selection task, we manipulated the extraction types (subject vs. object) and the animacy of the clefted constituent (animate vs. inanimate). 40 participants took part in the study. We o...
Narrative competencies are determinant for the academic success of children and adolescents. The assessment of these competencies – including comprehension and production – is important to complement the diagnosis of children with language impairment, and to plan interventions in clinical and educational contexts. We present in this paper a tool to assess narrative competencies developed for children aged 6 to ...
The Sentence Repetition Task (SRT) is an assessment tool for children’s language abilities, which has been used in various languages and speaker types. The present study adapted the LITMUS-SRT to European Portuguese (EP) and applied it to 43 monolingual and 25 bilingual heritage speakers of EP with German as societal language (aged 6 to 10 years), in order to evaluate their knowledge of various syntactic proper...
The present study investigates the longitudinal development of syntactic complexity in writing at early stages of development. It is based on the hypothesis that the use of subordination structures contributes to the characterization of syntactic complexity in writing, particularly in narratives produced in the first years of schooling. Specifically, we seek to answer the following research questions: (i) What ...
Previous literature on the typology of gerund clauses in Portuguese has overlooked a peculiar type of clauses which are always introduced by como ('as') and display an array of characteristics that set them apart from all other gerund clauses (and from other, somehow similar, constructions in different languages). In this paper, we provide an in-depth syntactic and semantic characterisation of these como-gerund...
This study investigates the development, in production, of clitic pronouns in the initial phases of writing by primary school children. Based on a corpus of 272 narrative texts produced by 136 children at the beginning of second grade and at the beginning of third grade, as part of a writing task which integrates the diagnostic instrument of the Preventive Intervention Project for Learning to Read and Write (PI...
This investigation aims to study the comprehension of A´movement (wh-questions and relatives) in L1 European Portuguese children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), since previous research on syntactic abilities in ASD remains inconclusive. 24 Portuguese speaking children with ASD (aged 5;6 to 13;11), including children with low and high non-verbal IQ, were compared to 35 typically developing (TD) children. Th...
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...