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(RE)CONTO: Tool to Assess Oral Narratives in European Portuguese-speaking Children
Vaz, Stéphanie; Lobo, Maria; Lousada, MarisaNarrative 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 ...
Sentence repetition task for European Portuguese: results from a study with mon...
Correia, Liliana; Lobo, Maria; Flores, CristinaThe 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...
Development of subordination structures in writing: longitudinal study with pri...
Batalha, Joana; Cardoso, Aida; Lobo, MariaThe 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 ...
Como-gerund clauses in European Portuguese: figuring out the riddle
Leal, António; Lobo, Maria; Silvano, Maria da PurificaçãoPrevious 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...
Development of clitic pronouns in early written productions
Vraka, Vasiliki; Lobo, Maria; Batalha, JoanaThis 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...
Comprehension of A' movement structures in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Costa, Raquel; Lobo, MariaThis 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...
Syntactic development in the written productions of 1st cycle children
Lobo, Maria; Batalha, Joana; Estrela, Antónia; Bragança, BrunaThis 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...
Comprehension of syntactic structures with A' movement and with A movement in P...
Moita, Mara; Lobo, MariaIn the period in which language should be acquired, auditory input deprivation compromises oral language exposure. The literature reports difficulties in the oral comprehension of syntactic dependencies resulting from A’ movement, but no difficulties in the acquisition of syntactic structures with A-movement in hearing-impaired children with hearing aids. Our study investigates the effects of the total deprivat...
The acquisition of the syntax of European Portuguese as a first language: state...
Lobo, Maria; Santos, Ana LúciaThis paper establishes a broad state-of-the-art of the research on the acquisition of the syntax of European Portuguese. It identifies broad questions that are subject to debate, the main topics and lines of research that have been pursued in the last decades, available resources, and new paths that can be developed.
Compreensão de estruturas sintáticas com movimento A’ e com movimento A em cria...
Moita, Mara; Lobo, MariaIn the period in which language should be acquired, auditory input deprivation compromises oral language exposure. The literature reports difficulties in the oral comprehension of syntactic dependencies resulting from A’ movement, but no difficulties in the acquisition of syntactic structures with A-movement in hearing-impaired children with hearing aids. Our study investigates the effects of the total deprivat...