Grammar & Resources

The group is centered on modeling linguistic knowledge, integrating interfaces between different areas of grammar and knowledge about how language is put to use. Joint work in formal phonology, lexicon, syntax and semantics allows building an integrated model of grammar, considering how it is represented in the human mind, as well as how it can be computationally modelled; work on L1 and L2 acquisition is at the core of this work. The integration of models of language representation and models of language use is achieved through the study of corpora.

The production of corpora and resources is justified by the goal of developing documentation and providing descriptions of contemporary European Portuguese, but also of understudied contact languages or varieties (Portuguese-based creoles, national varieties of Portuguese in Africa and Asia). The group also produces resources for the study of L1 and L2 acquisition in different settings. The group integrates CLARIN LP.

Research on L1 and L2 acquisition contributes to CLUL’s general purpose of effectively articulating fundamental and applied research, namely in the areas of Educational Linguistics and Clinical Linguistics.

General goals:

- To produce new resources for the study of Portuguese and Portuguese-based creoles;

- To pursue basic research on natural language modeling, integrating knowledge on interfaces between language modules;

- To continue the documentation and description of understudied creoles and new varieties of Portuguese that emerged in a context of language contact;

- To develop the study of language acquisition with an emphasis on language contact situations (see new international Heritage Language Consortium) and on the comparison between typical and atypical development;

- To explore the potential of comparative linguistics in the production of resources for translation and to promote connections with the industry in the area of translation.

 

Resources Type
A Lexicon of Child European Portuguese - CEPLEXicon Lexicon
A Portuguese Native Language Identification Dataset - NLI-PT Database
Acquisition of European Portuguese Databank - AcEP Database
Child-Adult Interaction Corpus - CAI Corpus
Child-Adult interaction European Portuguese Database
Consonantic Sequences Oral and Written Production Tasks - PORESC Tool
Controlled Portuguese - CLG Database
Corpora of PLE Corpus
Corpus Almeida - European Portuguese / French Corpus
Corpus Angolar Corpus
Corpus C-ORAL-ROM Corpus
Corpus CCF Corpus
Corpus CINTIL Corpus
Corpus Fadambo Corpus
Corpus Leiria (1991) Corpus
Corpus of Cape Verdean Portuguese Corpus
Corpus of Sri Lanka Portuguese Corpus
Corpus of the Diaries of the Portuguese Parliament annotated with PoS - PTPARL Corpus
Corpus PESTRA Corpus
Corpus Português Fundamental - Corpus PF Corpus
Corpus Principense Corpus
Corpus REDIP Corpus
Corpus Santome Corpus
Corpus SANTOS - European Portuguese Corpus
Crosslinguistic Child Phonology Project - Português Europeu - CLCP-PE Tool
Dados Orais de Cabo Verde - CV Words Database
Demo de Subespecificação e Desambiguação de Escopo Tool
Dictionary of Hindi-Portuguese-Hindi Database
Diu Indo-Portuguese Data Set Database
Learner Corpus of Portuguese L2 - COPLE2 Corpus
LT Corpus (Literary Corpus) - LT Corpus Corpus
Modality Lexicon - MODAL-LEX-PT Lexicon
Multifunctional Computational Lexicon of Contemporary Portuguese Lexicon
Named Entity Recognizer - CRPC-NER Tool
Nominal Multiword Lexical Units in European Portuguese Lexicon
NPChunks: Corpus of 1000 sentences annotated with PoS and nominal chunks - NPChunks Corpus
Online Corpus of Writing and Speech of Children in the Early Years of Schooling - EFFE-On Corpus
Online Dictionary Portuguese-Slovak/Slovak-Portuguese Database
Pereira&Freitas - EP Corpus
Person-Machine Interaction in Natural Language - INQUER Database
PhonoDis Corpus
Phonological Awareness Tasks for First Grade School Children - TCFC Tool
Portuguese Biographies - Bio-PT Database
Portuguese Corpus Annotated for Modality - MODAL Corpus
Portuguese Lexicon of Discourse Markers - LDM-PT Lexicon
Portuguese Technical Lexica - LEXTEC Lexicon
Portuguese Discourse Bank - CRPC-DB Corpus
Quotations database - CRPC-quotations Database
Ramalho – EP Corpus
Reference Corpus of Contemporary Portuguese - CRPC Corpus
Santome Structure Dataset Database
Spoken Corpus Mozambique 1986-87 - SCM Corpus
Spoken Portuguese - Geographical and Social Varieties Corpus
Vocatives in European Portuguese Corpus
Word Combination in European Portuguese - LEX-MWE-PT Lexicon
WordNet.PT Lexicon
Journal Paper
Cadime, I., Moreira, C., Santos, A. L., Silva, C., Ribeiro, I., & Viana, F. L. (2019). The development of vocabulary and grammar: A longitudinal study of European Portuguese-speaking toddlers. Journal Of Child Language, 46(4). http://doi.org/doi:10.1017/S0305000919000060
Silva, C., Cadime, I., Ribeiro, I., Santos, S., Santos, A. L., & Viana, F. L. (2017). Parents’ reports of lexical and grammatical aspects of toddlers’ language in European Portuguese: developmental trends, age and gender differences. First Language, 37(3). http://doi.org/doi:10.1177/0142723716689274
Santos, A. L., & Flores, C. (2016). Comparing heritage speakers and late L2-learners of European Portuguese: verb movement, VP ellipsis and adverb placement. Linguistic Approaches To Bilingualism, 6(3). http://doi.org/oi: 10.1075/lab.14006.san
Lobo, M., Santos, A. L., & Soares, C. (2016). Syntactic structure and information structure: the acquisition of Portuguese clefts and be-fragments. Language Acquisition, 23(2). http://doi.org/DOI:10.1080/10489223.2015.1067317
Santos, A. L., Gonçalves, A., & Hyams, N. (2016). Aspects of the acquisition of object control and ECM-type verbs in European Portuguese. Language Acquisition, 23(3). http://doi.org/DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2015.1067320
Móia, T., & Marques, R. (2019). Estruturas Comparativas Complexas: Variação e Desvio e Questões de Tradução. Revista Da Associação Portuguesa De Linguística, 5, 265-286.
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Pinto, J. (2018). Immersion learning activities: developing communicative tasks in the community. Theory And Practice Of Second Language Acquisition, 4 (1), 23-48.
Gramacho, C., Madeira, A., Martins, C., Alexandre, N., Pinto, J., & Correia, S. (2019). POR Nível: Construção e validação de um teste de colocação para o Português Língua Estrangeira – resultados de um estudo-piloto. Revista Da Associação Portuguesa De Linguística, 5, 172-189. Retrieved from https://ojs.apl.pt/index.php/RAPL/article/view/10/2
Móia, T. (2016). Subclasses of Temporal and Spatial Phrases in Portuguese – Location vs. Mere Reference. Journal Of Portuguese Linguistics, 15(1): 2 , 1–17.
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Truppi, C. (2019). Copulas in contact: Kriyol, Upper Guinea Creoles, and their substrate. Journal Of Ibero-Romance Creoles, 9.1, 30. Retrieved from http://www.acblpe.com/revista/volume-9-2019/copulas-in-contact-kriyol-upper-guinea-creoles (Original work published 06/2019AD)
Gueldemann, T., & Hagemeijer, T. (2019). The history of sentence negation in the Gulf of Guinea creoles. Journal Of Ibero-Romance Creoles , 2, 55-84.
Hagemeijer, T., & Zamora, A. (2016). Fa d’Ambô: from past to present. International Journal Of The Sociology Of Language, 2016(239). http://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2016-0009
Coelho, M., Coia, C.  A.  V., Luiselli, D., Useli, A., Hagemeijer, T., Amorim, A., et al. (2008). Human Microevolution and the Atlantic Slave Trade. Current Anthropology, 49(1), 134-143. http://doi.org/10.1086/524762
Lourenço-Gomes, M. C., Rodrigues, C., & Alves, I. (2016). EFFE-Escreves como falas - falas como escreves?. Revue Romane, 51, n.1, 36-69. http://doi.org/10.1075/rro.51.1.02gom
Santos, A. L. (2019). A pontuação: do ensino à avaliação. Revista Da Associação Portuguesa De Linguística, 5, 75-93.
Brissos, F., & Rodrigues, C. (2016). Vocalismo acentuado do Noroeste português - descrição acústica, variação dialectal e representação fonológica. Revue Romane, 51, n. 1, 1-35. http://doi.org/10-1075/rro.51.1.01bri
Rodrigues, C. (2015). Evidências de regularização acentual no Litoral Alentejano. Revista Da Abralin, 14, n.1, 463-479. Retrieved from http://ojs.c3sl.ufpr.br/ojs2/index.php/abralin/article/view/42401/25760 (Original work published Jan/Jun 2015)
Alves, I., Costa, P., Lourenço-Gomes, M. C., & Rodrigues, C. (2015). EFFE-On - Corpus online de escrita e fala. Revista Saber & Educar, 20, 24-33.
Pinto, J. (2020). Chinese Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Translanguaging and Its Uses in Portuguese Foreign Language Classrooms. Theory And Practice Of Second Language Acquisition, 6 (1), 11-30. http://doi.org/10.31261/TAPSLA.7742
Vieira, R., Mendes, A., Quaresma, P., Fonseca, E., Collovini, S., & Antunes, S. (2018). Corref-PT: A Semi-Automatic Annotated Portuguese Coreference Corpus. Computación Y Sistemas, 22(4). http://doi.org/10.13053/cys-22-4-3063
Castelo, A., & Freitas, M. J. (2019). Produção de vogais orais tónicas do PLE por falantes nativos de chinês mandarim. Orientes Do Português, 1, 47-58. Retrieved from http://orientes-do-portugues.ipm.edu.mo/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/OrientesPt_Vol1_5_CASTELOFREITAS_eVersion.pdf
Pinto, J. (2020). O ensino de línguas baseado em tarefas no ensino/aprendizagem da escrita em português língua segunda – propostas didáticas. Revista Do Gel, 17 (2), 170-195. http://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.21165/gel.v17i2.2425
Lao, S., Rodrigues, C., & Brissos, F. (2020). Nasalização regressiva heterossilábica (NRH) da vogal /a/ acentuada em PE. Revista Da Associação Portuguesa De Linguística, (7), 295-317. http://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln7ano2020a18
Mendes, A., Lejeune, P., & Soares, C. (2020). Perguntas-respostas em textos escritos: uma análise no âmbito das relações discursivas. Revista Da Associação Portuguesa De Linguística, 7, 226-241. http://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln7ano2020a14
Amaro, R., Correia, S., Gramacho, C., & Mendes, A. (2020). Automatização no diagnóstico de nível de língua: anotação e versatilidade dos recursos para PLE. Revista Da Associação Portuguesa De Linguística, 7, 1-20. http://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln7ano2020a1
Lynce, S., Moita, M., Freitas, M. J., Santos, E., & Mineiro, A. (2019). Phonological development in Portuguese deaf children with cochlear implants: preliminary study. Logopedia, Foniatría Y Audiología, 39, 115-128. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0214460319300300
Ramalho, A. M., & Freitas, M. J. (2018). Word-initial rhotic clusters in typically developing children: European Portuguese. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 32 (5-6), 459-480. http://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2017.1359857
Matos, G. (2019). Comment Reduced Parenthetical Clauses and the syntax-discourse interface. Revista Letras, Issn 0100-0888 (Versão Impressa) E 2236-0999 (Versão Eletrônica), vol. 99, 33-57. http://doi.org/DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5380/rel.v99i1.65792
Matos, G., & Rodrigues, P. (2020). Estruturas paratáticas de que-conetivo em frases não-argumentais. Revista Da Associação Portuguesa De Linguística, vol. 7, 209-225. http://doi.org/: https://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln7ano2020a13 (Original work published 2020)
Colaço, M., & Matos, G. (2016). A natureza paratática das causais explicativas em português. Revista Da Associação Portuguesa De Linguística, 1, 233-259. http://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.21747/ 2183-9077/rapla11 (Original work published 2016)