cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290627
title: A microanalysis of Rio Grande do Norte official letters

description: ABSTRACT Between variation and change, as we know, not only language, but also the texts, with their structures, undergo changes over time. This article aims to analyze textual changes observed in letters of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. These documents are part of the corpus called “Rio Grande do Norte official letters” connected to the regional project History of Brazilian Portuguese in Rio Grande do Norte (PHPB-RN) and the national one: History of Brazilian Portuguese (PHPB). We perform a micro-analysis of these letters, built upon the ideas of Coseriu and on the studies about discursive traditions (KOCH, 1997; KABATEK, 2006), according to which, texts are shaped to follow their own tradition (COSERIU, 2007). Firstly, we focus on the “letter” genre and its macro-structure; and afterwards, on the micro-structure clausula (valediction). This analysis shows some processes of variation and change which these official letters underwent, as well as how textual dynamics can indicate social change.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290627.v1
title: A microanalysis of Rio Grande do Norte official letters

description: ABSTRACT Between variation and change, as we know, not only language, but also the texts, with their structures, undergo changes over time. This article aims to analyze textual changes observed in letters of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. These documents are part of the corpus called “Rio Grande do Norte official letters” connected to the regional project History of Brazilian Portuguese in Rio Grande do Norte (PHPB-RN) and the national one: History of Brazilian Portuguese (PHPB). We perform a micro-analysis of these letters, built upon the ideas of Coseriu and on the studies about discursive traditions (KOCH, 1997; KABATEK, 2006), according to which, texts are shaped to follow their own tradition (COSERIU, 2007). Firstly, we focus on the “letter” genre and its macro-structure; and afterwards, on the micro-structure clausula (valediction). This analysis shows some processes of variation and change which these official letters underwent, as well as how textual dynamics can indicate social change.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290628
title: The meanings of writing in higher education: text production in the discourse of teachers and students from Portuguese and English graduation classrooms

description: Following a growing tendency of works in the field of language studies and education that investigate the written text production of students in Higher Education and the difficulties they present to produce texts that are communicatively relevant and successful, we aim at examining the work with text genres in the production of written texts in Higher Education. In this sense, we will focus particularly on the exam of two issues: the purpose of the text genres produced by students of Portuguese and English graduation courses and the possible interlocutors of these genres produced by them. Data were collected through questionnaires given to students and teachers of a public Higher Education institution. This paper adopts the conception of language as a process of interaction and the reflections on discourse genres from the studies of the Bakhtin Circle, as well as discussions about the genres and their teaching presented by other scholars. The results show that the teaching of text production in the context of Higher Education classroom caters mainly to the discipline specificities, revealing yet few initiatives that enable authentic situations of communicative interaction.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290628.v1
title: The meanings of writing in higher education: text production in the discourse of teachers and students from Portuguese and English graduation classrooms

description: Following a growing tendency of works in the field of language studies and education that investigate the written text production of students in Higher Education and the difficulties they present to produce texts that are communicatively relevant and successful, we aim at examining the work with text genres in the production of written texts in Higher Education. In this sense, we will focus particularly on the exam of two issues: the purpose of the text genres produced by students of Portuguese and English graduation courses and the possible interlocutors of these genres produced by them. Data were collected through questionnaires given to students and teachers of a public Higher Education institution. This paper adopts the conception of language as a process of interaction and the reflections on discourse genres from the studies of the Bakhtin Circle, as well as discussions about the genres and their teaching presented by other scholars. The results show that the teaching of text production in the context of Higher Education classroom caters mainly to the discipline specificities, revealing yet few initiatives that enable authentic situations of communicative interaction.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290629
title: THE PROSODY OF SINTATICALLY AMBIGUOUS SENTENCES IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE: LENGTHENING CUES??

description: Nespor and Vogel’s (1986)
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290629.v1
title: THE PROSODY OF SINTATICALLY AMBIGUOUS SENTENCES IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE: LENGTHENING CUES??

description: Nespor and Vogel’s (1986)
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290632.v1
title: EMBODIED INTERACTION: MULTIMODALITY, BODY AND COGNITION IN THE ANALYSIS OF CONVERSATIONS INVOLVING INDIVIDUALS WITH ALZHEIMER’S

description: ABSTRACT STREECK et al., 2011 MONDADA, 2008 KNOBLAUCH et al., 2012
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290633
title: Vowel variability and dispersion in Brazilian Portuguese and British English: a case study

description: ABSTRACT This paper aims at studying the effect of vowel inventory size on acoustic vowel space in languages with different size inventories: Portuguese with seven oral vowels and English with eleven. Based on Dispersion Theory, this study analyzes acoustically vowel variability and dispersion in those two languages. Contrary to the theoretical predictions, in our data, the phonetic realization of English vowels is less precise and presents greater variability than those of the smaller system (Portuguese). As for vowel dispersion and acoustic space area, contrary to predictions, our Portuguese vowels are more dispersed, occupying more extreme positions in the vowel space, covering a greater acoustic area than those of English. Our results are aligned to other research that fails to find empirical proof for the predictions proposed by Dispersion Theory. We advance another interpretation for the facts. We hypothesize that the vowel systems of English and Portuguese are somehow unstable now; however, Dispersion Theory fails to capture such facts as it is based on categorical phonemes disregarding variable allophones. Probably, a theoretical approach that takes languages as dynamic and complex systems (ELLIS; LARSEN-FREEMAN, 2009) could offer stronger evidence to understand these facts. Such approach will be undertaken in the future.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290633.v1
title: Vowel variability and dispersion in Brazilian Portuguese and British English: a case study

description: ABSTRACT This paper aims at studying the effect of vowel inventory size on acoustic vowel space in languages with different size inventories: Portuguese with seven oral vowels and English with eleven. Based on Dispersion Theory, this study analyzes acoustically vowel variability and dispersion in those two languages. Contrary to the theoretical predictions, in our data, the phonetic realization of English vowels is less precise and presents greater variability than those of the smaller system (Portuguese). As for vowel dispersion and acoustic space area, contrary to predictions, our Portuguese vowels are more dispersed, occupying more extreme positions in the vowel space, covering a greater acoustic area than those of English. Our results are aligned to other research that fails to find empirical proof for the predictions proposed by Dispersion Theory. We advance another interpretation for the facts. We hypothesize that the vowel systems of English and Portuguese are somehow unstable now; however, Dispersion Theory fails to capture such facts as it is based on categorical phonemes disregarding variable allophones. Probably, a theoretical approach that takes languages as dynamic and complex systems (ELLIS; LARSEN-FREEMAN, 2009) could offer stronger evidence to understand these facts. Such approach will be undertaken in the future.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290632
title: EMBODIED INTERACTION: MULTIMODALITY, BODY AND COGNITION IN THE ANALYSIS OF CONVERSATIONS INVOLVING INDIVIDUALS WITH ALZHEIMER’S

description: ABSTRACT STREECK et al., 2011 MONDADA, 2008 KNOBLAUCH et al., 2012
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9927233.v1
title: THE ROLE OF LOW HEADS IN THE CAUSATIVE INTERPRETATION IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE: SOME NOTES ON EVENT COMPOSITION, F-SEQ AND NANOSYNTAX

description: ABSTRACT: In this paper, we investigate the causativization process in Brazilian Portuguese in order to understand the constraints and generalizations that allow us to explain the apparently chaotic data in this language. We explore the hypothetico-deductive method and hypothesize that there are elements from the Aktionsarten domain that determine the verbal behavior in relation with a causative meaning. Consequently, we present a theoretical review of aspectual classes, employing the tools of a recent approach to the architecture of grammar named Nanosyntax (STARKE, 2009). Thereby, it will be possible to understand the finer-grained constraints that the classes of ‘states’ and ‘accomplishments’, for instance, impose for the causativization, taking into account ‘nano’ syntactic and semantic features, such as Initiation, Process, Result and Boundness. We conclude, therefore, that for a predicate to be interpreted as a causative one, the event denoted by it needs to be dynamic in its nature. In addition, we show that the functional sequence (F-seq), in the way it is proposed within the nanosyntactic model, allows us to explain the possible association of more than one syntactic node with the same verbal argument, as well as its underassociation and consequent identification with a null causative nucleus, as it happens to be the case in Brazilian Portuguese causativization.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290639
title: THE PRODUCTION OF A LULA-DILMA CO-PRESENCE EFFECT IN THE POLITICAL MEDIA DISCOURSE IN BRAZILIAN WEEKLY MAGAZINES FROM 2010

description: ABSTRACT: Foregrounded by the theoretical and methodological framework of the French Discourse Analysis, the current study embodies the Foucauldian idea of History as a discontinuous set of temporalities and recovers the discourse of the most important event in Brazil during 2010, when Dilma Rousseff was indicated as the presidential candidate of the Workers' Party (PT), as the successor of Luis Inácio Lula da Silva. Facts and events that constituted the conditions of possibility for the presidential race during the period are discussed, while the power relations that delineate the political and media discourse are problematized, as our paper analyzes the regularities/dispersions that guide Dilma's and Lula's discourses within a 208-issues archive of the weekly magazines CartaCapital, Época, IstoÉ and Veja published during the election year. Results show the production of a discursive effect of a Lula-Dilma co-presence, which, in three of the magazines, show a lack of qualification of the candidate's image, as a product manufactured for electoral purposes. On the other hand, in CartaCapital, as dispersion, the discursive effect highlights the partnership of the two subjects as essential for the continuity of the Worker's Party policy.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290639.v1
title: THE PRODUCTION OF A LULA-DILMA CO-PRESENCE EFFECT IN THE POLITICAL MEDIA DISCOURSE IN BRAZILIAN WEEKLY MAGAZINES FROM 2010

description: ABSTRACT: Foregrounded by the theoretical and methodological framework of the French Discourse Analysis, the current study embodies the Foucauldian idea of History as a discontinuous set of temporalities and recovers the discourse of the most important event in Brazil during 2010, when Dilma Rousseff was indicated as the presidential candidate of the Workers' Party (PT), as the successor of Luis Inácio Lula da Silva. Facts and events that constituted the conditions of possibility for the presidential race during the period are discussed, while the power relations that delineate the political and media discourse are problematized, as our paper analyzes the regularities/dispersions that guide Dilma's and Lula's discourses within a 208-issues archive of the weekly magazines CartaCapital, Época, IstoÉ and Veja published during the election year. Results show the production of a discursive effect of a Lula-Dilma co-presence, which, in three of the magazines, show a lack of qualification of the candidate's image, as a product manufactured for electoral purposes. On the other hand, in CartaCapital, as dispersion, the discursive effect highlights the partnership of the two subjects as essential for the continuity of the Worker's Party policy.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11453049
title: SYNCOPE OF NON-FINAL POSTONIC VOWELS IN THE INLAND OF PARANÁ: AN AUTOSEGMENTAL AND VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS FROM ALIB DATA

description: ABSTRACT In this paper, we aim to describe and analyze the phenomenon of syncope of postonic vowel in non-final context, based on data collected in interviews conducted by the project Linguistic Atlas of Brazil (ALiB), in sixteen points of inquiry located in the inland of Paraná, with a total of 64 informants. Thereby, we evaluate the frequency and possible linguistic and extralinguistic factors that can condition syncope/maintenance of non-final postonic vowel of proparoxytones in eleven lexical items: lâmpada (‘light bulb’), elétrico (‘electric’), fósforo (‘match’), pólvora (‘gunpower’), abóbora (‘pumpkin’), árvore (‘tree’), sábado (‘Saturday’), número (‘number’), fígado (‘liver’), vômito (‘vomit’) and hóspede (‘guest’) that are part of the Phonetic-Phonological Questionnaire (QFF in Portuguese) of the ALiB Questionnaire (ALiB PROJECT NATIONAL COMMITTEE, 2001). The investigation rests on the perspective of Pluridimensional Dialectology (THUN, 1998) and in light of the autosegmental phonological model for the syllable, in analysis of the syllabic pattern of Brazilian Portuguese (COLLISCHONN, 1996; BISOL, 1999). We found out that the phonological context of postonic vowels and adjacent segments may interfere in the conditioning of syncope, while the extralinguistic variables are not productive for this process in our corpus .
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11453049.v1
title: SYNCOPE OF NON-FINAL POSTONIC VOWELS IN THE INLAND OF PARANÁ: AN AUTOSEGMENTAL AND VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS FROM ALIB DATA

description: ABSTRACT In this paper, we aim to describe and analyze the phenomenon of syncope of postonic vowel in non-final context, based on data collected in interviews conducted by the project Linguistic Atlas of Brazil (ALiB), in sixteen points of inquiry located in the inland of Paraná, with a total of 64 informants. Thereby, we evaluate the frequency and possible linguistic and extralinguistic factors that can condition syncope/maintenance of non-final postonic vowel of proparoxytones in eleven lexical items: lâmpada (‘light bulb’), elétrico (‘electric’), fósforo (‘match’), pólvora (‘gunpower’), abóbora (‘pumpkin’), árvore (‘tree’), sábado (‘Saturday’), número (‘number’), fígado (‘liver’), vômito (‘vomit’) and hóspede (‘guest’) that are part of the Phonetic-Phonological Questionnaire (QFF in Portuguese) of the ALiB Questionnaire (ALiB PROJECT NATIONAL COMMITTEE, 2001). The investigation rests on the perspective of Pluridimensional Dialectology (THUN, 1998) and in light of the autosegmental phonological model for the syllable, in analysis of the syllabic pattern of Brazilian Portuguese (COLLISCHONN, 1996; BISOL, 1999). We found out that the phonological context of postonic vowels and adjacent segments may interfere in the conditioning of syncope, while the extralinguistic variables are not productive for this process in our corpus .
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11452431
title: WORKING MEMORY CAPACITY, READING PROFICIENCY, AND THE PROCESSING OF VERBAL AND PICTORIAL INFORMATION IN ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE READING

description: ABSTRACT This study investigates interplays among working memory capacity (WMC), reading proficiency, and the processing of verbal and pictorial information in English as a foreign language (EFL) reading. Participants were sixty Brazilian public-school students aged 15-17 years old (M = 16.3, SD. = 64). Instruments comprised a background questionnaire, an EFL reading proficiency test, a WMC test, a reading comprehension test, and a retrospective questionnaire. Quantitative and qualitative analyses revealed a positive correlation between the independent variables (i.e., EFL reading proficiency and WMC), as well as a significant association between each of the independent variables and the dependent variable (i.e., reading comprehension). Results indicated that: (1) WMC limitations appear to constrain the processing of non-illustrated expository texts; (2) low EFL reading proficiency may hamper the efficiency of pictorial information processing; and (3) WMC limitations in the processing of pictorial information seem to be compensated by the activation of background knowledge.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9927233
title: THE ROLE OF LOW HEADS IN THE CAUSATIVE INTERPRETATION IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE: SOME NOTES ON EVENT COMPOSITION, F-SEQ AND NANOSYNTAX

description: ABSTRACT: In this paper, we investigate the causativization process in Brazilian Portuguese in order to understand the constraints and generalizations that allow us to explain the apparently chaotic data in this language. We explore the hypothetico-deductive method and hypothesize that there are elements from the Aktionsarten domain that determine the verbal behavior in relation with a causative meaning. Consequently, we present a theoretical review of aspectual classes, employing the tools of a recent approach to the architecture of grammar named Nanosyntax (STARKE, 2009). Thereby, it will be possible to understand the finer-grained constraints that the classes of ‘states’ and ‘accomplishments’, for instance, impose for the causativization, taking into account ‘nano’ syntactic and semantic features, such as Initiation, Process, Result and Boundness. We conclude, therefore, that for a predicate to be interpreted as a causative one, the event denoted by it needs to be dynamic in its nature. In addition, we show that the functional sequence (F-seq), in the way it is proposed within the nanosyntactic model, allows us to explain the possible association of more than one syntactic node with the same verbal argument, as well as its underassociation and consequent identification with a null causative nucleus, as it happens to be the case in Brazilian Portuguese causativization.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.6388697
title: MOOCS FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING: A STUDY ON CALL FROM THE CONNECTIVIST PERSPECTIVE

description: ABSTRACT The increasing offer of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) in the World Wide Web generated the need to investigate their dynamics, pedagogy and structure in more depth to judge the possibilities of their effective use in the teaching of foreign languages. In this study, based on investigations in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), we start from the perspective of the Connectivist Learning Theory, established, mainly, from the studies of Siemens and Downes to analyze two foreign language courses in the MOOC modality offered in two different digital platforms: one course in Spanish as a foreign language offered by UNED on its own platform and a Mandarin course for Spanish speakers from the UNIMOOC platform. In both cases, it is evident that the courses did not fulfill what they promised, especially regarding the need to create spaces conducive to interaction. This study is part of a broader research proposal, whose objective is to establish adequate criteria for the creation of MOOCs as tools for the teaching of foreign languages.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290642
title: AN ANALYSIS FOR PORTUGUESE VEL-ADJECTIVES IN THE LIGHT OF DISTRIBUTED MORPHOLOGY

description: ABSTRACT This paper presents an analysis of Portuguese vel-adjectives based on Distributed Morphology (HALLE and MARANTZ 1993). This proposal, developed on Oltra-Massuet’s (2014) paper, argues that the modal (possibility, probability and obligation) and the non-modal (trigger) readings associated to vel-adjectives result from the presence of different functional heads composing their structure (vP, Asp and Mod). Considering of that point of view, this paper claims that /vel/ corresponds to a single Vocabulary item spelling out the adjectival head (ao) in the environment of both ModP morpheme and [cause] feature. This explains the different readings, which Brazilian Portuguese speakers relate to these adjectives. Adjectives licensing a modal interpretation have a ModP morpheme in their structure, whereas the ones with a nonmodal reading do not project it. This study proposes an important structural distinction among vel-adjectives licensing a modal reading, namely, only the ones presenting a possibility-reading project VoiceP, the other ones project only vP, which inserts the event-reading, but does not license the extern-argument projection (see KRATZER 1996; ALEXIADOU 2001). Finally, the present analysis suggests the occurrence of a [cause] feature at adjectival head, which assigns the trigger reading to vel-adjectives with a non-modal reading.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290642.v1
title: AN ANALYSIS FOR PORTUGUESE VEL-ADJECTIVES IN THE LIGHT OF DISTRIBUTED MORPHOLOGY

description: ABSTRACT This paper presents an analysis of Portuguese vel-adjectives based on Distributed Morphology (HALLE and MARANTZ 1993). This proposal, developed on Oltra-Massuet’s (2014) paper, argues that the modal (possibility, probability and obligation) and the non-modal (trigger) readings associated to vel-adjectives result from the presence of different functional heads composing their structure (vP, Asp and Mod). Considering of that point of view, this paper claims that /vel/ corresponds to a single Vocabulary item spelling out the adjectival head (ao) in the environment of both ModP morpheme and [cause] feature. This explains the different readings, which Brazilian Portuguese speakers relate to these adjectives. Adjectives licensing a modal interpretation have a ModP morpheme in their structure, whereas the ones with a nonmodal reading do not project it. This study proposes an important structural distinction among vel-adjectives licensing a modal reading, namely, only the ones presenting a possibility-reading project VoiceP, the other ones project only vP, which inserts the event-reading, but does not license the extern-argument projection (see KRATZER 1996; ALEXIADOU 2001). Finally, the present analysis suggests the occurrence of a [cause] feature at adjectival head, which assigns the trigger reading to vel-adjectives with a non-modal reading.