Grammar & Resources
Academic degree
Master
Professional situation
Ph.D Student
Research Areas
Language acquisition; Semantics
CV
Affiliation
Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa
Start date End date Description
2018 2022 (expected)

Ph.D Scholarship – FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia). Reference Grant: SFRH/BD/131672/2017.

2017 2018

Research Assistant (FCT Research Fellowship) at CLUL (Center of Linguistics of the University of Lisbon). Grammar & Resources Group.

2015; 2016; 2017

Teaching of the intensive course “Oficinas de Escrita” at FLUL (School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon). Modules: Syntactic structure and punctuation, Critical aspects of sentence structure, Issues on orthography.

2013 2017

Teaching of Portuguese as a Foreign Language at ICLP (Institute of Portuguese Culture and Language, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon) – levels A1, A2 and B1.

2013 2015

Collaborator of CLUL (Center of Linguistics of the University of Lisbon) – implementation of experimental tests in E-prime and SMI Eyetracking, data collection and analysis, linguistic annotation (CRPC - Reference Corpus of Contemporary Portuguese).

Member of completed projects

Selected publications

Flores, C., Santos, A. L., Almeida, L., Jesus, A., & Marques, R. (2019). Portuguese as a Heritage Language in contact with German and French: A comparative study on the acquisition of verbal mood. In Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 15. Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 30, Frankfurt (Ingo Feldhausen, Martin Elsig, Imme Kuchenbrandt & Mareike Neuhaus (eds.), pp. 36-52). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Jesus, A., Marques, R., & Santos, A. L. (2019). Semantic features in the acquisition of mood in European Portuguese. Language Acquisition, 26(3). http://doi.org/DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2019.1570203
Santos, A. L., Jesus, A., & Abalada, S. (2019). How do children interpret novel control verbs?. In Proceedings of the 43rd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (Megan M. Brown & Brady Dailey, pp. 585-598). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Flores, C., Santos, A. L., Jesus, A., & Marques, R. (2017). Age and input effects in the acquisition of mood in Heritage Portuguese. Journal Of Child Language, 44(4), 795-828. http://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000916000222

All publications

Date Conference title Type Authors Institution Docs
2021
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Portuguese has two underlying rhotics: evidence from Lisbon and Carioca varieties

 Annual Meeting on Phonology @ Toronto (AMP 2021)

Poster C. Zhou, A. Jesus University of Toronto
Online
2018
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How do children interpret novel control verbs?

43rd Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD)

Poster
Peer-reviewed
Ana Lúcia Santos, Alice Jesus, Silvana Abalada Boston
2018
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Constraints on the use of subjunctive in Brazilian Portuguese: a production study Poster
Peer-reviewed
Ana Lúcia Santos
Alice Jesus
Rui Marques
Association canadienne de linguistique / Canadian Linguistic Association. University of Regina
Regina
2017
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Controlo de objeto com infinitivo (não) flexionado

XXXIII Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística

Oral presentation
Peer-reviewed
Ana Lúcia Santos, Alice Jesus, Silvana Abalada Évora
2017
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On children’s interpretation of object control with (un)inflected infinitives

XIII International Symposium of Psycholinguistics

Oral presentation
Peer-reviewed
Ana Lúcia Santos, Alice Jesus, Silvana Abalada Braga
2016
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Portuguese as a Heritage Language in contact with German and French: a comparative study on the acquisition of verbal mood

Going Romance

Oral presentation
Peer-reviewed
Ana Lúcia Santos
Alice Jesus
Letícia Almeida
Rui Marques
Frankfurt
Other presentations

Jesus, A. (2019). Belief reports and mood contrasts in the acquisition of European Portuguese. 6th Bucharest Colloquium of Language Acquisition (BUCLA6). November 16.

Lungu, O., R. Marques, A. L. Santos & A. Jesus (2015). Simultaneous interpretations of complement clauses in European Portuguese child language. Poster. Romance Turn VII. Venice, October 1-3.

Jesus, A., R. Marques & A. L. Santos (2015). The acquisition of mood in complement clauses: epistemicity and veridicality. Poster. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA). Université de Nantes, September 10-12.

Jesus, A. (2014). Mood selection in early complement clauses of European Portuguese. 13th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL). Amsterdam, July 14-18.

Flores, C., A. L. Santos, R. Marques & A. Jesus (2014). The role of input in the acquisition of mood by heritage speakers of European Portuguese. 13th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL). Amsterdam, July 14-18.