cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290657
title: CRITICAL PERIOD AND PHONOLOGICAL ACQUISITION OF ENGLISH BY BRAZILIAN SPEAKERS

description: ABSTRACT: This article discusses the influence of age of acquisition on the process of learning a foreign language. We analyzed the acquisition of three phonological processes in English by speakers of Brazilian Portuguese and applied experiments on fricative voicing, stress shift and stress assignment to participants at three levels of proficiency: basic, intermediate and advanced. The results demonstrated that the age factor was relevant in two processes (stress shift and stress assignment) – at least at certain levels of proficiency. On the other hand, fricative voicing was not acquired by Brazilian speakers in any level of proficiency, regardless of age of acquisition.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290658
title: A STUDY OF THE USE OF COMMA IN THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE

description: Abstract This work aims to investigate the use of comma in European Portuguese from the 16th to the 19th centuries in two types of constructions: before verbal complement clause and after subject and non-clausal adjunct or dependent clause in first position. For this, a corpus of 24 texts by authors born between the 16th and 19th centuries was used. The results showed that, in the 16h and 17th centuries, the comma was used more frequently to help in the organization and reading of the text, indicating discursive and prosodic relations. However, in the 18th and 19th centuries, although the comma continues to serve as an indicator of the discursive role of the pre-verbal phrase, especially of pre-verbal subjects, before complement clauses such function was lost, as the authors began to pay more attention to the relation of complementarity between verb and argument, preferring not to separate them. One possible factor that would have favored this change seems to be the fact that, from the second half of the 18th century on, with the diffusion of the Enlightenment in Portugal, grammarians became more concerned with the norm and syntax of Portuguese, which led the punctuation system to be more based on logical-grammatical function.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290660
title: WHAT DO CORDEL AUTHORS SAY ABOUT THE DISCURSIVE GENRE THEY PRODUCE? AN ANALYSIS STEMMING FROM METALINGUISTIC REFLECTIONS ON COMPOSITIONAL ASPECTS OF THE CORDEL

description: ABSTRACT: This article aims to analyze what cordel1 authors say about the compositional dimensions (rhyme and metrics) of the genre cordel. To this end, we rely, on the one hand, on theoretical discussions on discursive genres and cordel literature, and, on the other hand, on theoretical constructs in the field of metalinguistic consciousness and, in particular, on metatextual consciousness. The participants of this study were six poets, with different ages and years of schooling, with whom metalinguistic interviews were conducted, whose data were treated in the light of the thematic content analysis. The results revealed that the cordel authors were highly sensitive to the rules of rhyme and that, in the case of more experienced and less educated poets, the logic of oral and performance seemed to be more important than the strict obedience to predetermined rhyme patterns. Regarding the metrics, we realized that certain precepts were difficult to verbalize, even for those cordel authors with a higher level of education. In addition, some less educated poets predominantly resorted to the use of “singing” to make sure that the verses were metered. Thus, we concluded that, even when unable to verbalize compositional aspects of the cordel, the poets — including the poorly educated — engaged in a complex and sophisticated process of metalinguistic reflection.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290655.v1
title: INTRODUCING ARGUMENTS TO THE KARITIANA VERBAL STRUCTURE

description: ABSTRACT: This paper investigates how Karitiana (a Tupian language, Arikém branch, located in Rondônia, Brazil; population: 396 people - 333 speakers) introduces additional arguments into the basic verbal structures. In order to analyze and discuss the data, we adopted two theoretical frameworks, i.e., (i) the Hale and Keyser (2002)'s theory of argument structure and (ii) the theory of applicative heads, elaborated by Pylkkänen (2008). In the former proposal, Karitiana displays four verbal classes (intransitive, intransitive with oblique objects, transitive and ditransitive verbs) while, in the latter, the language has only two verbal classes (intransitive and transitive verbs). Adopting Pylkkänen's framework, the Karitiana verbal system exhibits two basic structures in which applicative or voice nuclei add additional arguments. In causatives, the voice nuclei only introduce higher arguments into the structures. However, applicative heads are divided into two types – high and low. The higher head inserts an extra argument above the VP, while the lower one inserts the argument internally into the VP.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290660.v1
title: WHAT DO CORDEL AUTHORS SAY ABOUT THE DISCURSIVE GENRE THEY PRODUCE? AN ANALYSIS STEMMING FROM METALINGUISTIC REFLECTIONS ON COMPOSITIONAL ASPECTS OF THE CORDEL

description: ABSTRACT: This article aims to analyze what cordel1 authors say about the compositional dimensions (rhyme and metrics) of the genre cordel. To this end, we rely, on the one hand, on theoretical discussions on discursive genres and cordel literature, and, on the other hand, on theoretical constructs in the field of metalinguistic consciousness and, in particular, on metatextual consciousness. The participants of this study were six poets, with different ages and years of schooling, with whom metalinguistic interviews were conducted, whose data were treated in the light of the thematic content analysis. The results revealed that the cordel authors were highly sensitive to the rules of rhyme and that, in the case of more experienced and less educated poets, the logic of oral and performance seemed to be more important than the strict obedience to predetermined rhyme patterns. Regarding the metrics, we realized that certain precepts were difficult to verbalize, even for those cordel authors with a higher level of education. In addition, some less educated poets predominantly resorted to the use of “singing” to make sure that the verses were metered. Thus, we concluded that, even when unable to verbalize compositional aspects of the cordel, the poets — including the poorly educated — engaged in a complex and sophisticated process of metalinguistic reflection.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290655
title: INTRODUCING ARGUMENTS TO THE KARITIANA VERBAL STRUCTURE

description: ABSTRACT: This paper investigates how Karitiana (a Tupian language, Arikém branch, located in Rondônia, Brazil; population: 396 people - 333 speakers) introduces additional arguments into the basic verbal structures. In order to analyze and discuss the data, we adopted two theoretical frameworks, i.e., (i) the Hale and Keyser (2002)'s theory of argument structure and (ii) the theory of applicative heads, elaborated by Pylkkänen (2008). In the former proposal, Karitiana displays four verbal classes (intransitive, intransitive with oblique objects, transitive and ditransitive verbs) while, in the latter, the language has only two verbal classes (intransitive and transitive verbs). Adopting Pylkkänen's framework, the Karitiana verbal system exhibits two basic structures in which applicative or voice nuclei add additional arguments. In causatives, the voice nuclei only introduce higher arguments into the structures. However, applicative heads are divided into two types – high and low. The higher head inserts an extra argument above the VP, while the lower one inserts the argument internally into the VP.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290664
title: “O CELULAR ACABOU A BATERIA”: A DESCRIPTIVE AND FORMAL ANALYSIS FOR SUBJECT TOPIC CONSTRUCTIONS

description: ABSTRACT: This paper examines the syntax of subject topic constructions in Brazilian Portuguese, such as “o celular acabou a bateria” (“the cell phone ended the battery”), in order to present: (i) the description of subject topic constructions involving a DP [+ possessor] in the subject position; (ii) a theoretical analysis, considering the assumptions of the Generative Theory in its Minimalist version (CHOMSKY, 1995, 1998, 2001). The data consists of (1) spontaneous speech, collected in Rio de Janeiro between 2012 and 2014; (2) sentences from online searches using Google's advanced search system. We propose that the subject topic is a kind of construction in which there is external possession and, therefore, the movement of the DP [+ possessor] to the subject position is triggered by syntactic requirements, such as, the necessity of checking of the Case by the DP in order to make visible its thematic role of [+ possessor] in the logical form.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290664.v1
title: “O CELULAR ACABOU A BATERIA”: A DESCRIPTIVE AND FORMAL ANALYSIS FOR SUBJECT TOPIC CONSTRUCTIONS

description: ABSTRACT: This paper examines the syntax of subject topic constructions in Brazilian Portuguese, such as “o celular acabou a bateria” (“the cell phone ended the battery”), in order to present: (i) the description of subject topic constructions involving a DP [+ possessor] in the subject position; (ii) a theoretical analysis, considering the assumptions of the Generative Theory in its Minimalist version (CHOMSKY, 1995, 1998, 2001). The data consists of (1) spontaneous speech, collected in Rio de Janeiro between 2012 and 2014; (2) sentences from online searches using Google's advanced search system. We propose that the subject topic is a kind of construction in which there is external possession and, therefore, the movement of the DP [+ possessor] to the subject position is triggered by syntactic requirements, such as, the necessity of checking of the Case by the DP in order to make visible its thematic role of [+ possessor] in the logical form.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8226701.v1
title: MEDIA AS POLITICAL ACTOR OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE: A TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF VEJA MAGAZINE ON CORRUPTION CASES

description: ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the relations between media and politics in texts from Veja magazine, a representative of the Brazilian mainstream media, referring to cases of political corruption in the Lula and Dilma’s governments. The objective of this article is to identify linguistic-discursive resources mobilized in the production of Veja texts reinforcing the belief that its use of language is informative and impartial or it represents the voice of the Brazilian population. In discussing the relationship between the media and the political fields from an antagonistic political perspective, we have seen that the informative nature of Veja only takes place insofar as its journalists stance it and construct it as such. Moreover, the fact the discursive representations that Veja makes in its texts converge to the identity of the political actors reveals traces of antagonism that directly affect the construction of new identities. The article also leads to the idea that the media has a stake in the political struggle, whether as an adversary or not, but always as a political actor. For this analysis, we have adopted as theoretical-methodological frameworks Jim Martin and Peter White’s System of Appraisal, and Chantal Mouffe’s social theory of the political and agonistic democracy.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290666
title: SCIENTIFIC DISSEMINATION TEXTS: ANALYSIS OF TWO REPORTS ON PESTICIDES

description: ABSTRACT: This work is constructed with the intention of examining the text of scientific dissemination as a syncretic text to verify how the senses are constructed in each of the reports, also highlighting the concept of observer in discursive semiotics as responsible for the maintenance of perspective or the point of view of discourse. To reach its objective, the work, because both journals use visual and verbal language to compose their reports, firstly aims to verify how their texts selected for analysis create unity of meaning by integrating the two modalities of language. Second, it proposes to examine how the issue of pesticides is approached by the report of the magazine Super Interessante and by the magazine Pesquisa Fapesp. What is observed in the texts is the purpose of disseminating scientific information in a more accessible way to the public for which they are intended. Although both use similar language resources, they are used differently in function of the difference of their interlocutors, which establishes the observer responsible for conducting the point of view. The discursive semiotics will be the theoretical-methodological basis to understand the syncretic mechanisms involved in the constitution of the mentioned texts of scientific divulgation and, in using it, we will try to highlight its proposals for the treatment of the verbo-visual texts.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8226755
title: THE PLACE OF PORTUGUESE PHONETICS/PHONOLOGY IN PORTUGUESE OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS OF SCHOOL EDUCATION

description: ABSTRACT VELOSO, 2006 2 Cagliari (2009) Veloso (2006) Veloso and Rodrigues (2002)
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290670
title: Elaboration and evaluation of gluten-free cookies made with rice bran and rice and soy flours

description: The exclusion of gluten from the diet is a great challenge, since a lot of products that contain it are part of the population’s food habits. The objective of this work was to evaluate the physical, chemical and sensory properties of gluten-free cookies, made with rice flour, rice bran and soy flour. Four formulations were made: FT- standard (wheat); FAFS- rice flour (50%) and soy flour (50%); FEFS- rice bran (50%) and soy flour (50%); FAFEFS- rice flour (33%), soy flour (33%) and rice bran (33%). The following physical parameters were evaluated: weight loss after cooking, increased diameter and thickness after cooking, and the expansion factor. The moisture, protein, fat, ash and carbohydrate contents were also determined. In the sensory analysis the attributes of appearance, colour, texture, flavour and overall acceptance were evaluated and the purchase intent determined. Regarding the physical parameters, FAFEFS showed statistically different results for the increase in diameter and expansion factor. As for the chemical analyses, FEFS showed statistically different values for the protein and dietary fibre contents. With respect to acceptability, the alternative treatments did not differ from the standard. The FAFEFS cookies showed the highest percentages for purchase intention. It can be concluded that cookies made with rice bran and soybean flour (FEFS) as a substitute for wheat flour are a viable alternative from the nutritional and sensory points of view.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290672
title: Scientific Note: Physicochemical characterization of avocado oil extracted by centrifugation and of the process byproducts

description: The avocado originated in America, and is considered to be one of the most productive plants per unit of cultivated area. Fruits with high lipid levels may be important raw materials for the extraction of oils containing bioactive substances that could reduce the risk of diseases. This work aimed to extract avocado oil using a mechanical process, similar to that employed for olive oil. Water was added to the crushed pulp in a 1:1 ratio and the mixture maintained at 45-50 °C for 40-60 minutes. The oil, water and solids were separated using a three phase centrifuge and the oil filtered. The physicochemical composition of the avocado and of the process byproducts was determined using official AOCS methodology, determining the protein, moisture, ash and oil contents. The fatty acid profile of the avocado oil was determined by gas chromatography, and the saponification and iodine values of the avocado oil calculated based on the fatty acid composition. The oil showed values of between 0.5 and 0.6% free fatty acids; 5.95 to 11.89meq kg–1 of peroxides; 0.09 to 0.16% moisture; 0.96 to 1.94% of unsaponifiable matter and 74.69 to 88.16 mg kg–1 of chlorophyll.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290670.v1
title: Elaboration and evaluation of gluten-free cookies made with rice bran and rice and soy flours

description: The exclusion of gluten from the diet is a great challenge, since a lot of products that contain it are part of the population’s food habits. The objective of this work was to evaluate the physical, chemical and sensory properties of gluten-free cookies, made with rice flour, rice bran and soy flour. Four formulations were made: FT- standard (wheat); FAFS- rice flour (50%) and soy flour (50%); FEFS- rice bran (50%) and soy flour (50%); FAFEFS- rice flour (33%), soy flour (33%) and rice bran (33%). The following physical parameters were evaluated: weight loss after cooking, increased diameter and thickness after cooking, and the expansion factor. The moisture, protein, fat, ash and carbohydrate contents were also determined. In the sensory analysis the attributes of appearance, colour, texture, flavour and overall acceptance were evaluated and the purchase intent determined. Regarding the physical parameters, FAFEFS showed statistically different results for the increase in diameter and expansion factor. As for the chemical analyses, FEFS showed statistically different values for the protein and dietary fibre contents. With respect to acceptability, the alternative treatments did not differ from the standard. The FAFEFS cookies showed the highest percentages for purchase intention. It can be concluded that cookies made with rice bran and soybean flour (FEFS) as a substitute for wheat flour are a viable alternative from the nutritional and sensory points of view.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290672.v1
title: Scientific Note: Physicochemical characterization of avocado oil extracted by centrifugation and of the process byproducts

description: The avocado originated in America, and is considered to be one of the most productive plants per unit of cultivated area. Fruits with high lipid levels may be important raw materials for the extraction of oils containing bioactive substances that could reduce the risk of diseases. This work aimed to extract avocado oil using a mechanical process, similar to that employed for olive oil. Water was added to the crushed pulp in a 1:1 ratio and the mixture maintained at 45-50 °C for 40-60 minutes. The oil, water and solids were separated using a three phase centrifuge and the oil filtered. The physicochemical composition of the avocado and of the process byproducts was determined using official AOCS methodology, determining the protein, moisture, ash and oil contents. The fatty acid profile of the avocado oil was determined by gas chromatography, and the saponification and iodine values of the avocado oil calculated based on the fatty acid composition. The oil showed values of between 0.5 and 0.6% free fatty acids; 5.95 to 11.89meq kg–1 of peroxides; 0.09 to 0.16% moisture; 0.96 to 1.94% of unsaponifiable matter and 74.69 to 88.16 mg kg–1 of chlorophyll.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290658.v1
title: A STUDY OF THE USE OF COMMA IN THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE

description: Abstract This work aims to investigate the use of comma in European Portuguese from the 16th to the 19th centuries in two types of constructions: before verbal complement clause and after subject and non-clausal adjunct or dependent clause in first position. For this, a corpus of 24 texts by authors born between the 16th and 19th centuries was used. The results showed that, in the 16h and 17th centuries, the comma was used more frequently to help in the organization and reading of the text, indicating discursive and prosodic relations. However, in the 18th and 19th centuries, although the comma continues to serve as an indicator of the discursive role of the pre-verbal phrase, especially of pre-verbal subjects, before complement clauses such function was lost, as the authors began to pay more attention to the relation of complementarity between verb and argument, preferring not to separate them. One possible factor that would have favored this change seems to be the fact that, from the second half of the 18th century on, with the diffusion of the Enlightenment in Portugal, grammarians became more concerned with the norm and syntax of Portuguese, which led the punctuation system to be more based on logical-grammatical function.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290673
title: Levels of selected essential and non-essential metals in seeds of korarima (Aframomum corrorima) cultivated in Ethiopia

description: SummaryThe levels of essential (Ca, Mg, Fe, Zn, Cu, Co, Cr, Mn and Ni) and non-essential (Cd and Pb) metals were determined by flame atomic absorption spectrometry in samples of korarima (Aframomum corrorima) seeds and the corresponding soils collected from southern and southwestern Ethiopia. A wet digestion procedure involving the use of 3 mL of HNO3 (69-72%) and 1 mL of HClO4 (70%) were used to solubilize the metals from the korarima seed samples, and a modified aqua regia (HCl:HNO3) reagent with added hydrogen peroxide (6 mL of aqua regia and 1.5 mL of H2O2) was used for the soil samples. The levels of the nutrients in the korarima seed samples were in the following ranges: Ca (1794-2181); Mg (1626-2067); Mn (141-180); Fe (37-46); Zn (12-18); Ni (6.6-8.5); Cu (5.8-8.3); Cr (3.8-5.8) and Co (2.0-2.3) in µg g–1, respectively. The concentration of non-essential cadmium was in the range from 0.9-1 µg g–1 while that of lead was below the detection limit of the method. There was good correlation between the levels of some metals (Ni, Fe, Cd, Ca, Cu, Mg) in the korarima seeds and soil samples but poor correlation between other metals (Cr, Zn, Mn, Co).
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290676
title: Physicochemical and sensory characteristics of potato chips made from blanched potatoes of the cultivar BRS Ana and coated with methylcellulose

description: Summary The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of blanching combined with the use of salts and methylcellulose coatings (MC) on fat absorption and the physicochemical and sensory characteristics of potatoes of the cultivar BRS Ana, subjected to frying in the form of chips. The experiment was carried out with the cultivars BRS Ana and Asterix, Asterix potatoes being adequate for fried products. The control samples for the cultivars BRS Ana (T0') and Asterix (T0”) were not subjected to either blanching or any type of coating. Three treatments were tested for each cultivar, as follows: for the cultivar BRS Ana: T1: with blanching, without coating; T2: with blanching and coating using 1% MC; T3: with blanching and coating using 2% MC; for the cultivar Asterix: T4: with blanching, without coating; T5: with blanching and coating using 1% MC; T6 with blanching and coating using 2% MC. For the treatments subjected to blanching (T1, T2, T3, T4, T5 and T6), the sliced potatoes were immersed in water at 85 ° C for 3 minutes with the addition of 0.5% CaCl2 and 2.5% NaCl, followed by cooling and centrifugation. The potatoes used in treatments T2, T3, T5 and T6, which were coated with MC, were immersed in 1 or 2% (w / v) MC solution for 1 minute and then drained. All the potato chips were subjected to frying in vegetable oil at 180 ° C. The cultivar BRS Ana subjected to blanching and coating with 1% MC showed the lowest fat absorption (13%) during frying, with 29.37% fat in the final product. Furthermore, coating with 1% MC did not significantly affect the attributes of colour and texture of the potato chips or the consumer preference for the attributes studied (appearance, colour, flavour, and texture), with a sensory acceptance score of 85.9%. The cultivar BRS Ana potatoes subjected to blanching with the addition of NaCl and CaCl2 and coated with 1% MC showed good potential for use in the form of potato chips.