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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Brazilian Portuguese"”.

  1. PRONOUN-ANTECEDENT AGREEMENT (BINDING) IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE

    Hanson-Santos, Kier Chrsitine

    … 1995, Barbosa et al. 2005) indicates that Brazilian Portuguese (BP) is evolving linguistically: it apparently contains two grammars that are partially +NSL and partially –NSL. Within the framework of the Position of the Antecedent Hypothesis (PAH) advocated by (Carminati, 2002), null and …

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  2. PRONOUN-ANTECEDENT AGREEMENT (BINDING) IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE

    Hanson-Santos, Kier Chrsitine

    … 1995, Barbosa et al. 2005) indicates that Brazilian Portuguese (BP) is evolving linguistically: it apparently contains two grammars that are partially +NSL and partially –NSL. Within the framework of the Position of the Antecedent Hypothesis (PAH) advocated by (Carminati, 2002), null and …

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  3. Relative clause processing in Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese

    Miyamoto, Edson T. (Edson Tadashi), 1966-Massachusetts Institute of Technology1999

    … at hand are restricted based on data from Brazilian Portuguese. In Chapter 3, an experiment in Japanese investigates the locality preference in this head-final language. Finally, in Chapter 4, it will be suggested that ambiguities in relative clause attachment are not only well suited to …

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  4. SUBJECT EXPRESSION IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE: CONSTRUCTION AND FREQUENCY EFFECTS

    Silveira, Agripino

    Brazilian Portuguese (henceforth BP) has for long been considered as a Null-subject language due to its variability in regards to subject expression (e.g. Era bom porque eu diminu\xeda de peso... era muito gordinha \u2018That was good because then I could lose some weight\u2026 (I) was a bit …

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  5. The Acquisition of the English Present Perfect by a Speaker of Brazilian Portuguese

    Rocha, Eleomarques

    … language acquisition with an investigation of a Portuguese-speaking adult's acquisition of English present perfect from a historical, correlational, and qualitative viewpoint. Using a husband-wife interaction in the L1, it investigates whether explicit grammar instruction and error correction can …

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  6. Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese as a third language

    Santos, HeladeUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014

    … of properties of the dative alternation in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) by L1 Spanish/L2 English and L1 English/L2 Spanish speakers who are learning Portuguese as a third language (L3). This work contributes to a better understanding of which factors determine cross-linguistic influence in the …

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  7. The Brazilian-Portuguese MCMI-III: Diagnostic Validity of the Alcohol Dependence and Drug Dependence Scales

    Magalhaes, Cristina LilianNSUWorks2005

    The Brazilian-Portuguese Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (BP-MCMI-III) is a newly developed translation of the original MCMI-III and requires validation before it can be used in cross-cultural research and clinical settings. This study was the first validation study with the BP-MCMI-III …

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  8. Comparison between rule-based and data-driven natural language processing algorithms for Brazilian Portuguese speech synthesis

    Vecchietti, Luiz Felipe SantosUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro2017

    … Syllabification and Stress Determination. For Brazilian Portuguese (BP), solutions for the algorithms presented in the Text Analysis block have been focused in rule-based approaches. These algorithms perform well for BP but have many disadvantages. On the other hand, there is still no research …

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  9. Investigating sources of phonological rarity and instability: a study of the palatal lateral approximant in Brazilian Portuguese

    Wong, Nicole WannieUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2017

    … and acoustics of the palatal lateral in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) was undertaken in this dissertation. Articulatory data was collected using electromagenetic articulography (EMA) from 10 female native speakers of BP from São Paulo state in Brazil, which permitted the simultaneous …

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  10. High Initial Tones and Plateaux in Spanish and Portuguese Neutral Declaratives: Consequences to the Relevance of F0, Duration and Vowel Quality as Stress Correlates

    Ferreira, LetaniaUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2008

    … neutral declaratives in both Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese was elaborated. The results show that indeed Portuguese presents a more complex intonational system than Spanish in declaratives sentence initial position. Results suggest that pitch in Brazilian Portuguese sentence initial …

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  11. If you have the word in Portuguese why are you going to use it in English? Language ideologies of Brazilian Portuguese speaker studying English as a foreign language in Cape Town

    Araujo, Magberto RochaSchool of Education2015

    … debate about the spread of English in Brazil. Brazilian Portuguese is the official and by far most spoken language in Brazil. In spite of being a multilingual country, several policies guided the country towards monolingualism. A bill has been recently proposed by the then congressman Aldo …

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  12. Introduction to Brazilian art song: a pedagogical guide and analysis for selected art songs for use in the voice studio

    Nardino, Caroline2024

    The underrepresentation of Brazilian art song in international concert venues and studio teaching is linked to restricted access to scores, the absence of an official International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for Brazilian Portuguese, and a lack of knowledge regarding Brazilian music history. This …

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  13. Prosodic Boundary Effects on Syntactic Disambiguation in Children with Cochlear Implants, and in Normal Hearing Adults and Children

    Fortunato, Talita MariaThe Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York2016

    … the comprehension of attachment ambiguities in Brazilian Portuguese while experiment 2 investigates these effects in Brazilian Portuguese speaking children with CIs. Both experiments tested two hypotheses relying on the notion of boundary strength: the absolute boundary hypothesis (ABH) and the …

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  14. Language variation and contact phonetic and phonological aspects of Portuguese of Maputo city

    Simango, Aurélio ZacariasLinguistics2010

    … discussed by Surek-Clark (1998) in her study of Brazilian Portuguese speakers, apply to Mozambique Portuguese learners and if sociolinguistic factors such as age, education, residence and sex, play a significant role in allophonic distribution and sociolinguistic variation in Portuguese in …

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  15. The role of L2 experience in L1 phonotactic restructuring in sequential bilinguals

    Alcorn, Steven Michael2018

    … together in different parts of a syllable. In Brazilian Portuguese, for example, no stop consonant may occur at the end of a syllable, and any syllables in violation of this constraint are repaired by inserting an epenthetic /i/. Similarly, word-initial /sC/ clusters are disallowed in Spanish …

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  16. A Corpus-Based Study on the Portuguese Translations of English Adversative Coordinating Conjunctions and Adverbs in News Texts

    Cascione Cerqueira Netto, Marcella Cerqueira2020

    … adverbs are translated from English into Brazilian Portuguese through a parallel corpus built specifically for this research. The corpus is composed of 59 news articles extracted from the online versions of the British magazine <em>The Economist</em> and the Brazilian newspaper <em>O …

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  17. Psychometrically Equivalent Digital Recordings for Speech Audiometry Testing in Mandarin Chinese: Standard Mandarin Dialect

    Jennings, Lara-Jill2005

    … have been developed for other languages such as Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, French, Italian, Polish, and Russian. The aims of this study were to develop, digitally record, evaluate, and equate words and word lists in Mandarin Chinese to use for speech reception threshold …

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  18. Entoação regional no português do Brasil

    Cunha, Cláudia de SouzaUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro2000

    … marks responsible for the identification of five Brazilian speeches: the Pernambuco speech, the Bahia speech, Rio’s, São Paulo's and Porto Alegre's speeches, spanning three major geographical areas - Northeast to South They are all represented by recordings of male and female subjects of higher …

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  19. Definite and Indefinite Articles in Learner English: Identifying the Learning Problem and Addressing It with Processing Instruction Intervention

    Derkach, KaterynaUniversity of Cambridge2022

    … distinct first languages (L1s): German and Brazilian Portuguese, both [+art], Chinese and Russian, [-art]. I coded and analysed 660 written scripts from the Education First Cambridge Open Database to investigate several semantic and morphosyntactic factors, such as specificity and prenominal …

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  20. Jose Siqueira's Oito canções populares brasileiras : an analytical and interpretative study

    Ramalho de Mello, Marcel2020

    … Canções Populares Brasileiras (Eight Popular Brazilian Songs), published in 1955 for voice and piano. The analyses show how the composer used musical materials from Northeastern folklore, Native Brazilian culture, and popular urban musical traditions in the composition of this song set. The …

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