cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7514375
title: Detecting mild cognitive impairment in narratives in Brazilian Portuguese: first steps towards a fully automated system

description: Abstract: In recent years, Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) has received a great deal of attention, as it may represent a pre-clinical state of Alzheimer's disease (AD). In the distinction between healthy elderly (CTL) and MCI patients, automated discourse analysis tools have been applied to narrative transcripts in English and in Brazilian Portuguese. However, the absence of sentence boundary segmentation in transcripts prevents the direct application of methods that rely on these marks for the correct use of tools, such as taggers and parsers. To our knowledge, there are only a few studies evaluating automatic sentence segmentation in transcripts of neuropsychological tests. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of the automatic sentence segmentation method DeepBond on nine syntactic complexity metrics extracted of transcripts of CTL and MCI patients.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7514375.v1
title: Detecting mild cognitive impairment in narratives in Brazilian Portuguese: first steps towards a fully automated system

description: Abstract: In recent years, Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) has received a great deal of attention, as it may represent a pre-clinical state of Alzheimer's disease (AD). In the distinction between healthy elderly (CTL) and MCI patients, automated discourse analysis tools have been applied to narrative transcripts in English and in Brazilian Portuguese. However, the absence of sentence boundary segmentation in transcripts prevents the direct application of methods that rely on these marks for the correct use of tools, such as taggers and parsers. To our knowledge, there are only a few studies evaluating automatic sentence segmentation in transcripts of neuropsychological tests. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of the automatic sentence segmentation method DeepBond on nine syntactic complexity metrics extracted of transcripts of CTL and MCI patients.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7518416
title: Sentence disambiguation in the phonology-syntax-semantic interface

description: Abstract: We start from the results presented by Angelo & Santos (2017) on the disambiguation of sentences based on prosodic clues to try to clarify an issue that was unsolved in their research. The authors applied a comprehension task regarding sentences with NP1-V-NP2-Attribute structure (e.g. O pai visitou o filho feliz, ‘The father visited the son happy’ – ambiguous structure in Portuguese). One of their conclusions was that syllable stretching in the NP2 formed distinct prosodic domains between NP2 and the Attribute ([visitou o filhoϕ] [felizϕ], ‘[visited the sonφ] [happyφ]’), and that favors a non-local interpretation of the Attribute (one in which the Attribute is interpreted as modifying the subject, NP1, and not object, NP2). However, the authors noticed a variation between interpretations with local and nonlocal apposition in the comprehension of sentences without prosodic elongation. That is, according to the authors, the absence of prosodic marking would not favor one or the other interpretation, whereas elongated prosodic marking would favor a non-local interpretation. In our work, we argue that the disambiguation of this type of sentence depends basically on the resolution of a conflict between three different grammatical principles that are acting together in the disambiguation of sentences with this structure: a prosodic principle, a syntactic-computational principle and a semantic-pragmatic principle. In order to prove our point, we developed an off-line sentence comprehension test and applied it to 270 informants. Our results point to an interaction between these three principles in the resolution of the ambiguity of these sentences.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7518416.v1
title: Sentence disambiguation in the phonology-syntax-semantic interface

description: Abstract: We start from the results presented by Angelo & Santos (2017) on the disambiguation of sentences based on prosodic clues to try to clarify an issue that was unsolved in their research. The authors applied a comprehension task regarding sentences with NP1-V-NP2-Attribute structure (e.g. O pai visitou o filho feliz, ‘The father visited the son happy’ – ambiguous structure in Portuguese). One of their conclusions was that syllable stretching in the NP2 formed distinct prosodic domains between NP2 and the Attribute ([visitou o filhoϕ] [felizϕ], ‘[visited the sonφ] [happyφ]’), and that favors a non-local interpretation of the Attribute (one in which the Attribute is interpreted as modifying the subject, NP1, and not object, NP2). However, the authors noticed a variation between interpretations with local and nonlocal apposition in the comprehension of sentences without prosodic elongation. That is, according to the authors, the absence of prosodic marking would not favor one or the other interpretation, whereas elongated prosodic marking would favor a non-local interpretation. In our work, we argue that the disambiguation of this type of sentence depends basically on the resolution of a conflict between three different grammatical principles that are acting together in the disambiguation of sentences with this structure: a prosodic principle, a syntactic-computational principle and a semantic-pragmatic principle. In order to prove our point, we developed an off-line sentence comprehension test and applied it to 270 informants. Our results point to an interaction between these three principles in the resolution of the ambiguity of these sentences.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7518422
title: Silent reading time and reading aloud with young, older adults and elderly people

description: Abstract: This study aims to measure the Portuguese and English reading time (in silent and reading aloud texts), as well as the eyetracking control (the amount and the number of fixations and regressions (go-past reading), with three different experimental groups (10 for each one of the groups): young, old, and aging-elderly people, using eye-tracker EyeTribe. The results showed that the young participant group differed from the other two groups, with the measure length time ranging from 200 to 250 ms. The young participant group obtained a longer time in reading English than Portuguese. The elderly group showed a higher number than the established standard one of 500 ms, averaging between 600-650 ms. In English texts, the reading time was longer in the three categories. The participants read English texts faster when reading silently than when reading aloud.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7518422.v1
title: Silent reading time and reading aloud with young, older adults and elderly people

description: Abstract: This study aims to measure the Portuguese and English reading time (in silent and reading aloud texts), as well as the eyetracking control (the amount and the number of fixations and regressions (go-past reading), with three different experimental groups (10 for each one of the groups): young, old, and aging-elderly people, using eye-tracker EyeTribe. The results showed that the young participant group differed from the other two groups, with the measure length time ranging from 200 to 250 ms. The young participant group obtained a longer time in reading English than Portuguese. The elderly group showed a higher number than the established standard one of 500 ms, averaging between 600-650 ms. In English texts, the reading time was longer in the three categories. The participants read English texts faster when reading silently than when reading aloud.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7511489
title: Idiomaticity, familiarity and preceding information in BP idioms processing

description: Abstract: Idioms are typically characterized as non-compositional strings of words in which figurative meaning cannot be derived from the interpretation of its parts; the degree of compositionality, however, is variable. This paper investigates the comprehension of verb + complement idioms in Brazilian Portuguese (e.g. “passar a bola”, “pintar o sete”). Our research intends to explore to what extent internal and external factors affect the comprehension of idioms. We report the results of a maze task (self-paced reading experiment) in which the critical segment was related to the verb complement: idiomatic vs. literal complement (e.g. open the heart/ the door). The results revealed significant effects of the three investigated variables, suggesting that the degree of idiomaticity, the speaker's familiarity with the idiom and the previous context affect the processing of the idioms and, therefore, should be considered in a model that aims to explain the representation, access and comprehension of these structures.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7511489.v1
title: Idiomaticity, familiarity and preceding information in BP idioms processing

description: Abstract: Idioms are typically characterized as non-compositional strings of words in which figurative meaning cannot be derived from the interpretation of its parts; the degree of compositionality, however, is variable. This paper investigates the comprehension of verb + complement idioms in Brazilian Portuguese (e.g. “passar a bola”, “pintar o sete”). Our research intends to explore to what extent internal and external factors affect the comprehension of idioms. We report the results of a maze task (self-paced reading experiment) in which the critical segment was related to the verb complement: idiomatic vs. literal complement (e.g. open the heart/ the door). The results revealed significant effects of the three investigated variables, suggesting that the degree of idiomaticity, the speaker's familiarity with the idiom and the previous context affect the processing of the idioms and, therefore, should be considered in a model that aims to explain the representation, access and comprehension of these structures.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7517342
title: Phonological awareness training in Down Syndrome

description: Abstract: The present study aimed at evaluating and training phonological awareness in Down syndrome. The 24 participants, divided in three groups, were assessed in their metaphonological abilities and then the experimental groups (one of them typically developing and the other one with Down syndrome) went through a six-week program to train such abilities. As a result, the two experimental groups were significantly better in the post-test, due to the training program efficacy, and presented a better performance than the control group in the post-test. Furthermore, the Down syndrome group, after training, had an even better improvement than the typically developing group, probably because the training sections delivered for them were in an individual basis. We highlight the fact that all of the training activities were especially designed taking into account the difficulties related to memory, attention and expressive language, usually linked to this syndrome. Some points are made regarding methodological and teaching issues in assessing atypical populations.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7517342.v1
title: Phonological awareness training in Down Syndrome

description: Abstract: The present study aimed at evaluating and training phonological awareness in Down syndrome. The 24 participants, divided in three groups, were assessed in their metaphonological abilities and then the experimental groups (one of them typically developing and the other one with Down syndrome) went through a six-week program to train such abilities. As a result, the two experimental groups were significantly better in the post-test, due to the training program efficacy, and presented a better performance than the control group in the post-test. Furthermore, the Down syndrome group, after training, had an even better improvement than the typically developing group, probably because the training sections delivered for them were in an individual basis. We highlight the fact that all of the training activities were especially designed taking into account the difficulties related to memory, attention and expressive language, usually linked to this syndrome. Some points are made regarding methodological and teaching issues in assessing atypical populations.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7101119
title: Short fictional biography. Posibility of a reader's literary genre

description: Abstract: In this article, we begin from the theoretical implications vislumbrated by J. M. Schaeffer with the porpose to create a new literary genre based in the task of the reader to compare diverse literary works which maybe don't belong to the same tradition. The object of our interest is the existence of tales and narrations of biographies which are invented by an author interested in real historical characters (or even also invented). To explore the limits of the genre is necessary to know deeply the field of biografphy and the relations with literary writing and the relations with historiographical discourse too.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7101119.v1
title: Short fictional biography. Posibility of a reader's literary genre

description: Abstract: In this article, we begin from the theoretical implications vislumbrated by J. M. Schaeffer with the porpose to create a new literary genre based in the task of the reader to compare diverse literary works which maybe don't belong to the same tradition. The object of our interest is the existence of tales and narrations of biographies which are invented by an author interested in real historical characters (or even also invented). To explore the limits of the genre is necessary to know deeply the field of biografphy and the relations with literary writing and the relations with historiographical discourse too.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7677962
title: Critical retourn to the notion of ethos

description: Abstract: This article aims at criticizing the way the notion of discursive ethos has been generally used by discourse analysts for about fifteen years. This criticism is at the same time self-criticism, because from the 1980's on I contributed to develop this field of research. Firstly, I try to analyze the content of the notion of ethos, which I divide into three dimensions: “categorial”, “experiential”, “ideological”. Such a division allows us to take into account the full diversity of activity. Secondly, I reflect on the very process through which addressees construct ethos; this reflection draws on data from matchmaking websites, not from the kind of corpora (political discourse, advertising, literature…) that are usually analyzed by the researchers who work on ethos. Thirdly, this article deals with the problems that one encounters when one studies texts in which iconic and verbal dimensions are tightly connected. Two kinds of data are taken into consideration: websites, which imply both digital and verbal ethos, and commercials.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7677962.v1
title: Critical retourn to the notion of ethos

description: Abstract: This article aims at criticizing the way the notion of discursive ethos has been generally used by discourse analysts for about fifteen years. This criticism is at the same time self-criticism, because from the 1980's on I contributed to develop this field of research. Firstly, I try to analyze the content of the notion of ethos, which I divide into three dimensions: “categorial”, “experiential”, “ideological”. Such a division allows us to take into account the full diversity of activity. Secondly, I reflect on the very process through which addressees construct ethos; this reflection draws on data from matchmaking websites, not from the kind of corpora (political discourse, advertising, literature…) that are usually analyzed by the researchers who work on ethos. Thirdly, this article deals with the problems that one encounters when one studies texts in which iconic and verbal dimensions are tightly connected. Two kinds of data are taken into consideration: websites, which imply both digital and verbal ethos, and commercials.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7676612
title: Ethos and scenography of a Voice for men - Brazil: an exploration of online intimidating discourse

description: Abstract: Contributing to the debate on online intimidating discourses, this article analyzed the discursive ethos and scenography of the web A voice for Men Brazil – AVfM. The analyzed data, where several verbal and non-verbal elements were taken into account, allows us to identify a simulacrum of subjugated counter-public ethos that perpetuates stereotypes, accentuates gender differences, and could incites hatred against the female sex, more specifically against the feminist women.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7676612.v1
title: Ethos and scenography of a Voice for men - Brazil: an exploration of online intimidating discourse

description: Abstract: Contributing to the debate on online intimidating discourses, this article analyzed the discursive ethos and scenography of the web A voice for Men Brazil – AVfM. The analyzed data, where several verbal and non-verbal elements were taken into account, allows us to identify a simulacrum of subjugated counter-public ethos that perpetuates stereotypes, accentuates gender differences, and could incites hatred against the female sex, more specifically against the feminist women.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7676369
title: The discord of pens: a study of ethos in political pages on Facebook

description: Abstract: This article has as objective to analyse the ethos of two pages created on Facebook: Caneta desmanipuladora and Caneta desesquerdizadora, in the intention of investigating how they create an image of themselves from enunciations published in their timelines. For the realization of this study, we take as theoretical support the studies of the Discourse Analysis of French line, specially, the concept of ethos worked by Maingueneau, as well as the Facebook exam undertaken by Emediato. Methodologically, this study is registered in an interpretative-descriptive slant of qualitative hallmark. As result, we check, on basis of the analysis of the corpus, as two enunciators, which, a priori, group together, can create images of themselves distinct from the discursive ethos.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7676369.v1
title: The discord of pens: a study of ethos in political pages on Facebook

description: Abstract: This article has as objective to analyse the ethos of two pages created on Facebook: Caneta desmanipuladora and Caneta desesquerdizadora, in the intention of investigating how they create an image of themselves from enunciations published in their timelines. For the realization of this study, we take as theoretical support the studies of the Discourse Analysis of French line, specially, the concept of ethos worked by Maingueneau, as well as the Facebook exam undertaken by Emediato. Methodologically, this study is registered in an interpretative-descriptive slant of qualitative hallmark. As result, we check, on basis of the analysis of the corpus, as two enunciators, which, a priori, group together, can create images of themselves distinct from the discursive ethos.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7678478
title: Ethical world and midium: a Paulistana scenography of Brazilian science

description: Abstract: Considering the notion of ethos as it was proposed by Maingueneau since his seminal text “About ethos” (2008), this article presents: i) an emphasis on the notion of ethical world, still little explored as an analytical instrument; ii) a theoretical improvement that puts the medium as constitutive of the ethical world. The journal Pesquisa Fapesp is the editorial object considered here as a sensitivity vector linked to a matrix of mentality, the Fapesp Foundation, and functions as a medium that feeds an ethical world: both for documenting it and legitimizing it, as for being part of it, legitimizing itself as a documentary (DEBRAY, 2000a and b). In order to clarify this approach, we analyze this data: 1. The publicity in the magazine; 2. Graphs about the research in Brazil; 3. A specialized lexicon. These data show a peculiar scenography circumscription to the referent “Brazilian science”.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7678478.v1
title: Ethical world and midium: a Paulistana scenography of Brazilian science

description: Abstract: Considering the notion of ethos as it was proposed by Maingueneau since his seminal text “About ethos” (2008), this article presents: i) an emphasis on the notion of ethical world, still little explored as an analytical instrument; ii) a theoretical improvement that puts the medium as constitutive of the ethical world. The journal Pesquisa Fapesp is the editorial object considered here as a sensitivity vector linked to a matrix of mentality, the Fapesp Foundation, and functions as a medium that feeds an ethical world: both for documenting it and legitimizing it, as for being part of it, legitimizing itself as a documentary (DEBRAY, 2000a and b). In order to clarify this approach, we analyze this data: 1. The publicity in the magazine; 2. Graphs about the research in Brazil; 3. A specialized lexicon. These data show a peculiar scenography circumscription to the referent “Brazilian science”.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7676609
title: Body and fashion with glam: images about adolescence

description: Abstract: This work, wich is the resulto f a master's dissertation, seeks to analyze – articulated with the social construction of the female subject, the self images of the teenage girls who write for a section of Capricho Magazine, namely: Tudo de Blog. Here I analyze the construction of these images observing, above all, the representations and stereotypes that the act of taking the floor and talking about themselves recover in the interdiscourse. This gesture is justified by the attempt to understand the crystallizations wich are constrcted around the female image and wich underlie the practices of the adolescence in the print media. The work of these reflections is based on the interest to investigate the theoretical-analytical framework proposed by Maingueneau (1997, 2005, 2008), Amossy (2005 and 2010), Charaudeau (2008) regarding the discursive ethos and its construction in the social practices about the feminine by means of the mediatic discourse, then, observing the image relation between oneself/feminine.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7676609.v1
title: Body and fashion with glam: images about adolescence

description: Abstract: This work, wich is the resulto f a master's dissertation, seeks to analyze – articulated with the social construction of the female subject, the self images of the teenage girls who write for a section of Capricho Magazine, namely: Tudo de Blog. Here I analyze the construction of these images observing, above all, the representations and stereotypes that the act of taking the floor and talking about themselves recover in the interdiscourse. This gesture is justified by the attempt to understand the crystallizations wich are constrcted around the female image and wich underlie the practices of the adolescence in the print media. The work of these reflections is based on the interest to investigate the theoretical-analytical framework proposed by Maingueneau (1997, 2005, 2008), Amossy (2005 and 2010), Charaudeau (2008) regarding the discursive ethos and its construction in the social practices about the feminine by means of the mediatic discourse, then, observing the image relation between oneself/feminine.