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(Dys)Prosody in Parkinson’s disease: effects of medication and disease progress...
Frota, Sónia; Cruz, Marisa; Cardoso, Rita; Guimarães, Isabel; Ferreira, Joaquim; Pinto, Serge; Vigário, MarinaAbstract: The phonology of prosody has received little attention in studies of motor speech disorders. The present study investigates the phonology of intonation (nuclear contours) and speech chunking (prosodic phrasing) in Parkinson’s Disease (PD), as a function of medication intake and progression of the disease. Following methods of the prosodic and intonational phonology frameworks, we examined the ability ...
Validation of a new tool for evaluating subjects’ satisfaction with medicine pa...
Pires, Carla Maria Batista Ferreira; Rosa, Pedro Joel; Vigário, Marina; Cavaco, Afonso Miguel das NevesBACKGROUND: Package leaflets of medicines need to be intelligible, but tools for their evaluation are scarce. OBJECTIVE: To validate a new tool for assessing subjects’ satisfaction with medicine package leaflets (LiS‑RPL). DESIGN AND SETTING: Cross-sectional descriptive study conducted in two regions of Portugal (Lisbon and Centre). METHODS: 503 participants (53.1% male) were selected according to convenience a...
Basic research in phonology, resources and applications: the case of frequency
Vigário, Marina; Martins, Fernando; Cruz, Marisa; Paulino, Nuno; Frota, SóniaÉ crescente a valorização da conversão do conhecimento fundamental desenvolvido pelos cientistas em produtos concretos, socialmente relevantes. No Laboratório de Fonética da Universidade de Lisboa tem-se trabalhado nos últimos anos tanto em domínios de investigação fundamental, como de investigação aplicada. Neste artigo é feita uma revisão dos principais recursos recentemente disponibilizados à comunidade por ...
Glide insertion to break a hiatus across words in European Portuguese: the role...
Oliveira, Pedro; Cruz, Marisa; Paulino, Nuno; Vigário, MarinaGlide insertion to break hiatus has long been reported in the literature to occur in the Northern and Central varieties of Portuguese but this has not been systematically investigated before. From a larger corpus of speech material collected in several locations in the North and Center of Portugal, we selected for analysis a sample coming from six locations in the Northwest of Portugal and one location in the C...
Evaluation of brand names of medicines: linguistic and format issues
Pires, Carla; Cavaco, Afonso; Vigário, MarinaObjectives: Focusing on the shape of brand names of medicines in the Portuguese market, the aims of this study were: to evaluate the number of words, syllables and letters, to identify the combinations of letters that are not found in Portuguese words and to characterize the use of capital letters in these names. Methods: A descriptive study was conducted using 474 randomized brand names of medicines, approxima...
Automatic quantification of abbreviations and symbols in medicinal package leaf...
Pires, Carla; Vigário, Marina; Martins, Fernando; Cavaco, AfonsoAbstract of the research project presented at International Meeting of Doctoral Students in Nursing of Universidade de Lisboa, May 2016.; Resumo do projeto de investigação apresentado no Encontro Internacional de Doutorandos de Enfermagem da Universidade de Lisboa, Maio de 2016.
Tune or Text? Tune-text accommodation strategies in Portuguese
Frota, Sónia; Cruz, Marisa; Castelo, Joelma; Barros, Nádia; Crespo-Sendra, Verònica; Vigário, MarinaIn Portuguese, different strategies for dealing with tune-text accommodation have been reported. However, no systematic research has been conducted exploring crucial cases of complex nuclear melodies realized in nuclear words with final stress, as in yes-no questions. Based on reading and semi-spontaneous data from ten regions in Brazil and eleven regions in Portugal, this study reveals that Brazilian and Europ...
Infants' perception of native and non-native pitch contrasts
Frota, Sónia; Butler, Joseph; Shuang, Lu; Vigário, MarinaInfants' ability to distinguish between forms of phonetic variation in speech that are relevant to meaning is essential for their language development. Little is known about the developmental course of infants' perception of pitch contrasts, particularly in the presence of segmental variability which entails the ability to extract and generalize the contrastive patterns. Using single-bisyllabic utterances, in E...
Revisiting “Stress Deafness” in European Portuguese – An ERP Study
Shuang, Lu; Correia, Susana; Jernónimo, Rita; Vigário, Marina; Frota, SóniaSeveral behavioral studies have suggested that speakers of languages with variable stress (e.g., Spanish) are better than speakers of languages with fixed stress (e.g., French) at discriminating stress contrasts. European Portuguese (EP) is a language with variable stress, and the main cues for stress are duration and vowel reduction. However, when the vowel quality cue is absent, native speakers are not able t...
Graphical content of medicinal package inserts: an exploratory study to evaluat...
Pires, Carla; Vigário, Marina; Cavaco, AfonsoThe graphical content of the Medicines Package Inserts (MPIs), such as illustrations and typographic features should be legible and appropriate, as required by international pharmaceutical regulations.