Grammar & Resources
Academic degree
Master
Professional situation
PhD Student
Research Areas
Acquisition of Syntax
Affiliation
Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa
Start date End date Description
May 2016 Presently

Science and Technology Management Grantee at Scholl of Arts and Humanaties of the University of Lisbon, as Secretary of the Center of Linguistics of the University of Lisbon.

February 2016 May 2016

Teacher of Portuguese as Foreign Language at Institute of Portuguese Culture and Language (ICLP) of the University of Lisbon.

September 2015 January 2016

Professor of Production of Written Portuguese, undergraduate course unit at School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon.

February 2015 June 2015

Professor of Production of Written Portuguese, undergraduate course unit at School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon.

February 2012 January 2016

PhD Grantee (FCT/SFRH/BD/80331/2011) of the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, for the PhD project entitled Acquisition of the Left and Right Peripheries in European Portuguese.

April 2011 June 2011

Linguistic annotation for INESC-ID/L2f, Spoken Language Systems Laboratory.

March 2010 January 2012

Assessor of the Directive Board of Center of Linguistics of the University of Lisbon.

January 2010 April 2010

Linguistic annotation for Gracenote, Inc., company specialized in recognition and synthesis systems, specially for digital music.

July 2009 December 2009

Linguistic annotation for INESC-ID/L2f, Spoken Language Systems Laboratory.

June 2009 June 2009

Linguistic annotation in the project The Investigator's Dashboard (I-Dash), SIP-2007-TP-131703.

 

April 2009 May 2009

Linguistic annotation for INESC-ID/L2f, Spoken Language Systems Laboratory.

October 2008 March 2009

Linguistic annotation in the project POrting Speech Technologies to other varieties of PORTuguese (POSTPORT), FCT (PTDC/PLP/72404/2006), under the protocol CLUL/INESC-ID.

September 2008 July 2009

Collaborator in data collection for the study Acrísio Pires, Jason Rothman & Ana Lúcia Santos (2010): “Inflected Infinitives in L1 European Portuguese: A case for intrinsic late acquisition?”. In João Costa, Ana Castro, Maria Lobo & Fernanda Pratas (eds.): Proceedings of GALA 2009Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press.

January 2008 June 2008

Linguistic annotation in the project TECNOlogias de reconhecimento e síntese de VOZ (TECNOVOZ), PRIME (3.1a) Project Number 03/165.

External projects

Title Institution Link
I-Dash (The Investigator’s Dashboard) INESC-ID/L2f, Laboratório de Sistemas de Língua Falada
POSTPORT (POrting Speech Technologies to other varieties of PORTuguese) INESC-ID/L2f, Laboratório de Sistemas de Língua Falada
TECNOVOZ (TECNOlogias de reconhecimento e síntese de VOZ) INESC-ID/L2f, Laboratório de Sistemas de Língua Falada

Selected publications

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.
Abalada, S., & Cardoso, A. (2015). Prosodic Effects of Syntactic Distribution in Vocatives in European Portuguese. In Parenthetical verbs (Stefan Schneider, Julie Glikman & Mathieu Avanzi, pp. 4-13). Berlin: De Gruyter.
Duarte, I., Santos, A. L., & Abalada, S. (2015). Periferias esquerda e direita: assimetrias. In XXX Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística. Textos Seleccionados (António Moreno, Fátima Silva & João Veloso, pp. 229-246). Braga: Edições Colibri/APL.
Santos, A. L., Généreux, M., Cardoso, A., Agostinho, C., & Abalada, S. (2014). A corpus of European Portuguese child and child-directed speech. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2014) (pp. 1488-1491). Reykjavik: European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
Abalada, S. (2013). Acquisition of the Left and Right Peripheries in European Portuguese. In Advances in Language Acquisition: Proceedings of GALA 2011 (Stavroula Stavrakaki, Polyxeni Konstatinopoulou & Marina Lalioti, pp. 4-13). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Abalada, S. (2012). Aquisição das Periferias Esquerda e Direita em Português Europeu. In XXVII Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística. Textos Seleccionados (Armanda Costa, Cristina Flores & Nélia Alexandre, pp. 45-65). Lisboa: Edições Colibri/APL.
Abalada, S., Cardoso, A., & Cabarrão, V. (2011). O Vocativo em Português Europeu: Estudo de Parâmetros Prosódicos em Vocativos com Diferentes Distribuições. In XXVI Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística. Textos Seleccionados (Armanda Costa, Isabel Falé & Pilar Barbosa, pp. 1-16). Lisboa: Edições Colibri/APL.
Abalada, S., Cardoso, A., & Cabarrão, V. (2010). Proposta de Classificação Semântica de Unidades Lexicais Multipalavra Nominais. In XXV Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística. Textos Seleccionados (Ana Maria Brito, Fátima Silva, João Veloso & Alexandra Fiéis, pp. 81-94). Porto: Edições Colibri/APL.

All publications

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.
Abalada, S., & Cardoso, A. (2015). Prosodic Effects of Syntactic Distribution in Vocatives in European Portuguese. In Parenthetical verbs (Stefan Schneider, Julie Glikman & Mathieu Avanzi, pp. 4-13). Berlin: De Gruyter.
Duarte, I., Santos, A. L., & Abalada, S. (2015). Periferias esquerda e direita: assimetrias. In XXX Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística. Textos Seleccionados (António Moreno, Fátima Silva & João Veloso, pp. 229-246). Braga: Edições Colibri/APL.
Santos, A. L., Généreux, M., Cardoso, A., Agostinho, C., & Abalada, S. (2014). A corpus of European Portuguese child and child-directed speech. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2014) (pp. 1488-1491). Reykjavik: European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
Abalada, S. (2013). Acquisition of the Left and Right Peripheries in European Portuguese. In Advances in Language Acquisition: Proceedings of GALA 2011 (Stavroula Stavrakaki, Polyxeni Konstatinopoulou & Marina Lalioti, pp. 4-13). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Abalada, S. (2012). Aquisição das Periferias Esquerda e Direita em Português Europeu. In XXVII Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística. Textos Seleccionados (Armanda Costa, Cristina Flores & Nélia Alexandre, pp. 45-65). Lisboa: Edições Colibri/APL.
Abalada, S., Cardoso, A., & Cabarrão, V. (2011). O Vocativo em Português Europeu: Estudo de Parâmetros Prosódicos em Vocativos com Diferentes Distribuições. In XXVI Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística. Textos Seleccionados (Armanda Costa, Isabel Falé & Pilar Barbosa, pp. 1-16). Lisboa: Edições Colibri/APL.
Abalada, S., Cardoso, A., & Cabarrão, V. (2010). Proposta de Classificação Semântica de Unidades Lexicais Multipalavra Nominais. In XXV Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística. Textos Seleccionados (Ana Maria Brito, Fátima Silva, João Veloso & Alexandra Fiéis, pp. 81-94). Porto: Edições Colibri/APL.
Date Conference title Type Authors Institution Docs
2022
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Control in ditransitive vs. transitive structures and the effect of the inflected infinitive

47th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD)

Oral presentation
Peer-reviewed
Ana Lúcia Santos, Alice Jesus, Silvana Abalada Boston
2022
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Control and inflected infinitives in ditransitive vs. transitive structures

GALA 2022: Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition

Oral presentation
Peer-reviewed
Ana Lúcia Santos, Alice Jesus, Silvana Abalada Frankfurt
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
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
2017
Olhar para as periferias da frase: pistas para a aquisição e o desenvolvimento de estruturas linguísticas que envolvem a interface sintaxe-discurso

Workshop on Linguistics, Language Development and Impairment VII

Oral presentation
Invited
Silvana Abalada, Ana Lúcia Santos Lisboa
2014
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Periferias Esquerda e Direita: Assimetrias

XXX Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística

Oral presentation
Peer-reviewed
Ana Lúcia Santos, Silvana Abalada Porto
2014
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Left and Right Peripheries: Asymmetries

24th Colloquium on Generative Grammar (in honor of Violeta Demonte)

Poster
Peer-reviewed
Silvana Abalada, Ana Lúcia Santos Madrid
2014
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A corpus of European Portuguese child and child-directed speech

9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2014)

Poster
Peer-reviewed
Ana Lúcia Santos, Michel Généreux, Aida Cardoso, Celina Agostinho, Silvana Abalada Reykjavik
2013
Tracking the Acquisition of the Left and Right Peripheries in European Portuguese Using Eye Movements

Workshop on Language Processing and Eyetracking

Oral presentation
Invited
Silvana Abalada Lisboa
2012
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Prosodic Effects of Syntactic Distribution in Vocatives in European Portuguese

Parenthétiques 2012 - Les verbes parenthétiques: hypotaxe, parataxe ou parenthèse?

Oral presentation
Peer-reviewed
Silvana Abalada, Aida Cardoso, Vera Cabarrão Paris
2011
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Aquisição das Periferias Esquerda e Direita em Português Europeu

XXVII Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística

Oral presentation
Peer-reviewed
Silvana Abalada Lisboa
2011
-
Acquisition of the Left and Right Peripheries in European Portuguese

UMinho Summer School of Linguistics 2011: Neuro and Psycholinguistic Approaches to Language Processing

Poster
Peer-reviewed
Silvana Abalada Braga
2010
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O Vocativo em Português Europeu: Estudos de Parâmetros Prosódicos em Vocativos com Diferentes Distribuições

XXVI Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística

Oral presentation
Peer-reviewed
Silvana Abalada, Aida Cardoso, Vera Cabarrão Porto
2009
-
Proposta de Classificação Semântica de Unidades Lexicais Multipalavra Nominais

XXV Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística

Poster
Peer-reviewed
Silvana Abalada, Aida Cardoso, Vera Cabarrão Lisboa