Researchers

Miguel Fontes Meira

Juliana Barbosa

Nathalie Torres Vila Nova

Learning of conventional genitive relatives in BP

This research aims to investigate relativization strategies with the pronoun "cujo", as well as the influence of the mother tongue learning context on the learning of this syntactic construction. The hypothesis of this work is that conventional genitive relatives are not natural and are not fully learned through formal education, being avoided even by adults. Thus, we intend to identify and describe the factors involved in this unnaturalness, such as insufficient input over the acquisition period, late teaching, or computational structure involved.

Sonia Eliane Niewiadomski

Sound characteristics of spoken Polish and Portuguese in the municipality of Cruz Machado, Paraná

Investigates the productivity of the nasalization process in Brazilian Portuguese in a Polish-Portuguese bilingual community located in the municipality of Cruz Machado, in the interior of the state of Paraná. The study analyzes how the productivity of the phenomenon varies according to the generation the speakers belong to, taking into account linguistic variables (such as syllable stress, syllable structure) and extralinguistic ones (such as the degree of exposure to Portuguese, education level, type of bilingual, family environment, age of BP acquisition, and possible influences from the Polish structure).

Rosiani Bueno de Oliveira Dias

The use of null subject and expressed subject in English by speakers of Brazilian and European Portuguese

This research aims to map the morphosyntactic "errors" stemming from the influence of the first language produced by native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and European Portuguese (EP) who are learning the English language as an additional language (L2). Our initial focus will be to compare the use of null subject or expressed subject in the English production of these speakers.

Mariana de Freitas Martins

Acquisition of unstressed vowels in Brazilian Portuguese

Kalyne Alves de Melo Silva

Syntactic transfer in the bilingual acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese and English: an experimental proposal with subject hyper-raising and topic hyper-raising

Studies syntactic transfer in the comprehension and production of bilingual children acquiring Brazilian Portuguese and English in a context of simultaneous and successive bilingualism. The research can help in the understanding of the language development of BP-English bilinguals, as well as contribute to the understanding of the production of sentences with subject and topic hyper-raising constructions in BP.

Isabella Merighi de Andrade

Undergraduate Research Project: The Production of relative clauses by speakers of Brazilian Portuguese: gaps and resumptive pronouns in subject position

Liz Moura Carvalho

Undergraduate Research Project: Analysis of the production of relative clauses and WH-questions by children acquiring Brazilian Portuguese

Gustavo de Souza Vieira dos Santos

Undergraduate Research Project: The acquisition of the ordering of the fricative resyllabification process and voicing assimilation in Brazilian Portuguese

Maria Bárbara de Oliveira Lopes

Undergraduate Research Project: Acoustic Differences between Adult Speech and Child-Directed Speech to Boys aged 1;0 to 1;6 and its Role in Language Acquisition

Ana Cecília Ioriatti Guizzo

Undergraduate Research Project: Acoustic Differences between Adult Speech and Child-Directed Speech to Boys aged 2;0 to 2;6 and its Role in Language Acquisition

Maria Luiza Simões Lucio

Undergraduate Research Project: Acoustic Differences between Adult Speech and Child-Directed Speech to Girls aged 1;0 to 1;6 and its Role in Language Acquisition

Maria Clara da Silva Santana

Undergraduate Research Project: Acoustic Differences between Adult Speech and Child-Directed Speech to Girls aged 2;0 to 2;6 and its Role in Language Acquisition

Lia Amaro Lopes

Undergraduate Research Project: Acoustic Differences between Adult Speech and Child-Directed Speech to Boys aged 3;0 to 3;6 and its Role in Language Acquisition

Luiza Andrade Ferreira Silva

Undergraduate Research Project: Acoustic Differences between Adult Speech and Child-Directed Speech to Girls aged 3;0 to 3;6 and its Role in Language Acquisition

Victoria Gonçalves Clementino

Undergraduate Research Project: Development of the syllable and the word in Brazilian Portuguese, from 3 to 4 years old

Mariana Ensfeld Lueders

Undergraduate Research Project: The acquisition of the resyllabification process of fricatives in Brazilian Portuguese

Yasmin Victoria Santos Malaquias

Undergraduate Research Project: Child speech and adult speech: phonological differences and similarities

Bruna Máximo Jesus de Oliveira

Undergraduate Research Project: Interpretation of long questions by children acquiring Brazilian Portuguese