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DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.6388697.v1
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.14290636
title: “SÓ”, “EXCLUSIVAMENTE” AND THEIR POSITIONS IN THE SENTENCE

description: In this paper, I examine some properties of higher and lower adverbs to suggest that the focusing só ‘only’ belongs to the first group. I argue that the behavior of exclusive só in Brazilian Portuguese is better explained on syntactic grounds, i.e. in terms of its position in the universal hierarchy. The key to arrive at this conclusion comes from the distribution of the focusing exclusivamente ‘exclusively’ which is also an exclusive adverb but behaves differently from só with respect to some syntactic properties which discriminate between lower and higher adverbs. I will show that Bever and Clark’s (2008) predictions that Semantics would be responsible for the asymmetries between quantificational adverbs and the exclusive só is not accurate inasmuch as exclusive exclusivamente ‘exclusively’, in Brazilian Portuguese, goes together with quantificational adverbs as far as some syntactic properties are examined.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290645
title: THE MATERNITY DISPOSITIF IN ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER: ENTEXTUALIZATIONS AND SCALAR PROCESSES

description: ABSTRACT In this article, we understand motherhood as a dispositif that shapes social life and gives support to the nuclear family, but that is subject to mutations and reappropriations. Our purpose is to think about the extent to which the film All about my mother, by denaturalizing maternity performances, as well as those of gender and sexuality, stimulates reflexivity on this subject and leads to possible resignifications. We have selected two moments of the textual trajectory ( BLOMMAERT, 2005 ) the film has been following since 1999 and submitted them to the analysis of the entextualization ( SILVERSTEIN; URBAN, 1996 ; BAUMAN; BRIGGS, 1990 ) and scalar processes ( CARR; LEMPERT, 2016 ) mobilized in order to gauge such reflexivity. We have observed that a large part of the queer destabilizations that the film narrative promotes inspire positions in new entextualizations that, in most cases, ratify such destabilizations and manage to expand the concept of motherhood beyond biological and instinctive associations, which prevail in common sense ( SCAVONE, 2001 ; FIDALGO, 2003 ; PINHEIRO, 2014 ).
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.6388772.v1
title: THE ACQUISITION OF PRE-TONIC VOWELS IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE

description: ABSTRACT This article discusses acquisition of pre-tonic vowels in Brazilian Portuguese by 3 monolingual children acquiring the paulista dialect, aged between 1;4 and 3;5, and its relation to the acquisition of stressed vowels. Based on Miranda (2013), we start out from the supposition that the acquisition of pre-tonic vowels is subject to the instability of this position, and segments affected by phonological processes take longer to be acquired. The children’s productions show that high pre-tonic vowels are acquired in contrast with mid vowels, (/i,o/ and /e,u/), and that the pre-tonic /o/ is acquired before /e/. We analyse these results based on Contrastive Hierarchy Theory (DRESHER, 2009), according to which the lexical representation of segments is specific to each language and only contrastive and active features must be present in the representation. We propose that the acquisition of pre-tonic vowels follows the Principle of Maximum Contrast: because of the instability found in this position, segments must be maximally contrastive; that is, they must contrast in place and height. The pre-tonic /e/, being more unstable (cf. CALLOU; MORAES; LEITE, 2002; VIEGAS, 2001; YACOVENCO, 1993), is the last one to be acquired, bringing with it the pretonic /u/.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290646
title: NASALIZATION PROCESSES IN LUNG’IE

description: ABSTRACT This study describes and analyses vocalic nasality triggered by nasal elements in codas and onsets in Lung’Ie, a Portuguese-based Creole spoken in São Tomé and Príncipe. We observed the language’s phonotactic behavior and investigated the occurrence of vocalic nasalization processes according to their segmental and suprasegmental aspects. In this regard, we considered the lexical stress and the possibility of segmental resyllabification. We designed a perceptual test in order to identify the way in which coda nasality was perceived by native speakers. By omitting a consonant in the onset position of the next syllable in relation to the nasalized syllable, speakers interpreted the nasal appendix as a full consonant [n]. The nasal consonant in the coda was therefore resyllabified into an onset position. This syllabic restructuration is an indication of a biphonemic interpretation of nasality in Lung’Ie (AGOSTINHO, 2015; BALDUINO et al., 2015; BANDEIRA, 2017). The phonotactic analysis indicates lexical stress as an essential factor in the performance of the nasalization process triggered by an onset. On the other hand, nasalization processes triggered by the coda are possible in stressed and unstressed syllables. The importance of the stress in the application of this process supports a mixed suprasegmental system in Lung’Ie constituted by lexical stress and tones, albeit stress is the primary suprasegmental category (AGOSTINHO, 2015).
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290646.v1
title: NASALIZATION PROCESSES IN LUNG’IE

description: ABSTRACT This study describes and analyses vocalic nasality triggered by nasal elements in codas and onsets in Lung’Ie, a Portuguese-based Creole spoken in São Tomé and Príncipe. We observed the language’s phonotactic behavior and investigated the occurrence of vocalic nasalization processes according to their segmental and suprasegmental aspects. In this regard, we considered the lexical stress and the possibility of segmental resyllabification. We designed a perceptual test in order to identify the way in which coda nasality was perceived by native speakers. By omitting a consonant in the onset position of the next syllable in relation to the nasalized syllable, speakers interpreted the nasal appendix as a full consonant [n]. The nasal consonant in the coda was therefore resyllabified into an onset position. This syllabic restructuration is an indication of a biphonemic interpretation of nasality in Lung’Ie (AGOSTINHO, 2015; BALDUINO et al., 2015; BANDEIRA, 2017). The phonotactic analysis indicates lexical stress as an essential factor in the performance of the nasalization process triggered by an onset. On the other hand, nasalization processes triggered by the coda are possible in stressed and unstressed syllables. The importance of the stress in the application of this process supports a mixed suprasegmental system in Lung’Ie constituted by lexical stress and tones, albeit stress is the primary suprasegmental category (AGOSTINHO, 2015).
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290648
title: A LOOK UPON THE EMERGENCE OF CONTEMPORARY APPLIED LINGUISTICS THROUGH COMPLEX SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE

description: ABSTRACT This paper, product of meta-research associated with some documental analysis, aims to revisit the history of Applied Linguistics (AL) in the light of Complex Systems: systems with different types of elements which connect and interact in different and changing ways. This history is approached in relation to change, upon the notion that AL is a system of living agents and in ongoing processes of coadaptation to the environment, be it within or outside the associations to which they adhere. For such, five characteristics are identified in AL trajectory: a) adaptive; b) non-linear; c) open; d) dynamic(al); e) having heterogeneous agents. Therefore, we intend to corroborate the historical perspective about the emergence of autonomous AL as a system in ongoing and incessant process of change.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290648.v1
title: A LOOK UPON THE EMERGENCE OF CONTEMPORARY APPLIED LINGUISTICS THROUGH COMPLEX SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE

description: ABSTRACT This paper, product of meta-research associated with some documental analysis, aims to revisit the history of Applied Linguistics (AL) in the light of Complex Systems: systems with different types of elements which connect and interact in different and changing ways. This history is approached in relation to change, upon the notion that AL is a system of living agents and in ongoing processes of coadaptation to the environment, be it within or outside the associations to which they adhere. For such, five characteristics are identified in AL trajectory: a) adaptive; b) non-linear; c) open; d) dynamic(al); e) having heterogeneous agents. Therefore, we intend to corroborate the historical perspective about the emergence of autonomous AL as a system in ongoing and incessant process of change.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.6388772
title: THE ACQUISITION OF PRE-TONIC VOWELS IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE

description: ABSTRACT This article discusses acquisition of pre-tonic vowels in Brazilian Portuguese by 3 monolingual children acquiring the paulista dialect, aged between 1;4 and 3;5, and its relation to the acquisition of stressed vowels. Based on Miranda (2013), we start out from the supposition that the acquisition of pre-tonic vowels is subject to the instability of this position, and segments affected by phonological processes take longer to be acquired. The children’s productions show that high pre-tonic vowels are acquired in contrast with mid vowels, (/i,o/ and /e,u/), and that the pre-tonic /o/ is acquired before /e/. We analyse these results based on Contrastive Hierarchy Theory (DRESHER, 2009), according to which the lexical representation of segments is specific to each language and only contrastive and active features must be present in the representation. We propose that the acquisition of pre-tonic vowels follows the Principle of Maximum Contrast: because of the instability found in this position, segments must be maximally contrastive; that is, they must contrast in place and height. The pre-tonic /e/, being more unstable (cf. CALLOU; MORAES; LEITE, 2002; VIEGAS, 2001; YACOVENCO, 1993), is the last one to be acquired, bringing with it the pretonic /u/.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290645.v1
title: THE MATERNITY DISPOSITIF IN ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER: ENTEXTUALIZATIONS AND SCALAR PROCESSES

description: ABSTRACT In this article, we understand motherhood as a dispositif that shapes social life and gives support to the nuclear family, but that is subject to mutations and reappropriations. Our purpose is to think about the extent to which the film All about my mother, by denaturalizing maternity performances, as well as those of gender and sexuality, stimulates reflexivity on this subject and leads to possible resignifications. We have selected two moments of the textual trajectory ( BLOMMAERT, 2005 ) the film has been following since 1999 and submitted them to the analysis of the entextualization ( SILVERSTEIN; URBAN, 1996 ; BAUMAN; BRIGGS, 1990 ) and scalar processes ( CARR; LEMPERT, 2016 ) mobilized in order to gauge such reflexivity. We have observed that a large part of the queer destabilizations that the film narrative promotes inspire positions in new entextualizations that, in most cases, ratify such destabilizations and manage to expand the concept of motherhood beyond biological and instinctive associations, which prevail in common sense ( SCAVONE, 2001 ; FIDALGO, 2003 ; PINHEIRO, 2014 ).
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290651
title: THE SEMANTIC PROPERTY MOTION IN THE LEXICAL REPRESENTATION OF BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE VERBS

description: ABSTRACT: In this paper, we (i) describe semantic and syntactic behavior of motion verbs in Brazilian Portuguese, (ii) analyze the lexicalization pattern of these verbs and (iii) determine how motion is represented in the lexical structure of verbs by means of primitive predicates decomposition metalanguage. We propose that all Brazilian Portuguese motion verbs lexicalize the execution of an event instead of the path or manner of motion dichotomy, as proposed in many linguistics papers. However, although motion verbs show the same pattern of lexicalization, they cannot be considered as belonging to a single verb class, because they differ in number and type of their arguments, in their lexical aspect and in their unaccusativity behavior. Thus, Brazilian Portuguese motion verbs are divided, at least, into five different classes. Each class presents its own semantic representation.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290654
title: EU ACABEI DE ESCREVER O ARTIGO (I HAVE JUST WRITTEN THE PAPER/I FINISHED WRITING THE PAPER) – A STUDY OF AMBIGUITY IN SENTENCES WITH THE VERB ACABAR

description: ABSTRACT: Sentences including the verb acabar followed by an infinitive clause headed by the preposition de have two readings: one, which I will call culminative reading, points out to the smallest final sub-event of an event denoted by the verb of the infinitive clause; the other, which I will call recency reading, places the time of the event of the infinitive clause immediately before another time taken as reference. In this paper, I propose that the two readings involve structures and interpretations of the verb acabar radically different. This work, assuming the theoretical framework of Distributed Morphology, shows evidences that: (1) in culminative reading, we typically have control, while in the recency reading, raising; (2) the infinitive sentences in the recency reading convey temporal/aspectual information not conveyed by the infinitives in culminative reading; (3) while in culminative reading the verb acabar introduces a sub-event of the event denoted by the infinitive sentence, in the recency reading the verb only conveys a set of temporal relations.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290654.v1
title: EU ACABEI DE ESCREVER O ARTIGO (I HAVE JUST WRITTEN THE PAPER/I FINISHED WRITING THE PAPER) – A STUDY OF AMBIGUITY IN SENTENCES WITH THE VERB ACABAR

description: ABSTRACT: Sentences including the verb acabar followed by an infinitive clause headed by the preposition de have two readings: one, which I will call culminative reading, points out to the smallest final sub-event of an event denoted by the verb of the infinitive clause; the other, which I will call recency reading, places the time of the event of the infinitive clause immediately before another time taken as reference. In this paper, I propose that the two readings involve structures and interpretations of the verb acabar radically different. This work, assuming the theoretical framework of Distributed Morphology, shows evidences that: (1) in culminative reading, we typically have control, while in the recency reading, raising; (2) the infinitive sentences in the recency reading convey temporal/aspectual information not conveyed by the infinitives in culminative reading; (3) while in culminative reading the verb acabar introduces a sub-event of the event denoted by the infinitive sentence, in the recency reading the verb only conveys a set of temporal relations.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290651.v1
title: THE SEMANTIC PROPERTY MOTION IN THE LEXICAL REPRESENTATION OF BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE VERBS

description: ABSTRACT: In this paper, we (i) describe semantic and syntactic behavior of motion verbs in Brazilian Portuguese, (ii) analyze the lexicalization pattern of these verbs and (iii) determine how motion is represented in the lexical structure of verbs by means of primitive predicates decomposition metalanguage. We propose that all Brazilian Portuguese motion verbs lexicalize the execution of an event instead of the path or manner of motion dichotomy, as proposed in many linguistics papers. However, although motion verbs show the same pattern of lexicalization, they cannot be considered as belonging to a single verb class, because they differ in number and type of their arguments, in their lexical aspect and in their unaccusativity behavior. Thus, Brazilian Portuguese motion verbs are divided, at least, into five different classes. Each class presents its own semantic representation.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290656
title: CUMULATIVE SEMANTIC INHIBITION IN SPANISH VERB PRODUCTION

description: ABSTRACT: This paper reports an experiment designed to assess the occurrence of lexical interference in verb production in Spanish. Using the semantic competitors paradigm (HOWARD et al., 2006), we show that the higher the number of verbs of the same category produced, the longer it takes to retrieve another verb of the same category in a picture naming task. According to our data, the production of a related verb delays the naming of a new member of the category by 20 ms., which means that, as is the case with nouns, semantically related verbs compete for selection. These results support the statement that, regardless their differences with respect to semantic representation and organization, verb and noun selection are guided by the same principles. Methodologically, our findings confirm that the paradigm is highly sensitive to semantic proximity effects, in terms of either categories or features. In light of these findings, we discuss the reasons why previous studies exploring semantic relatedness effects in verb production, most of them using the picture-word interference paradigm, have led to inconclusive and sometimes contradictory results.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290656.v1
title: CUMULATIVE SEMANTIC INHIBITION IN SPANISH VERB PRODUCTION

description: ABSTRACT: This paper reports an experiment designed to assess the occurrence of lexical interference in verb production in Spanish. Using the semantic competitors paradigm (HOWARD et al., 2006), we show that the higher the number of verbs of the same category produced, the longer it takes to retrieve another verb of the same category in a picture naming task. According to our data, the production of a related verb delays the naming of a new member of the category by 20 ms., which means that, as is the case with nouns, semantically related verbs compete for selection. These results support the statement that, regardless their differences with respect to semantic representation and organization, verb and noun selection are guided by the same principles. Methodologically, our findings confirm that the paradigm is highly sensitive to semantic proximity effects, in terms of either categories or features. In light of these findings, we discuss the reasons why previous studies exploring semantic relatedness effects in verb production, most of them using the picture-word interference paradigm, have led to inconclusive and sometimes contradictory results.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5816136
title: THE PRESUMED IMPARTIALITY OF JOURNALISTIC DISCOURSE: IDEOLOGICAL POSITIONING IN APPROPRIATING THE DISCOURSE OF OTHERS

description: ABSTRACT: This article engages with the discussion on the tension between objectivity and subjectivity in the field of journalism theory. Addressing the place of language in these studies, we propose that the modes of appropriating the discourse of the Other can be a way to reconcile this tension, as we raise the hypothesis that it is a mark of the socio-ideological positioning of the journalist-subject in relation to the object of utterance. Therefore, we begin with the concept of language from the Bakhtin Circle, examining the news from two of the most widely read newspapers in the State of Pernambuco – the Diário de Pernambuco and the Jornal do Commercio, respectively – which addresses Eduardo Campos, candidate to the presidency of Brazil in 2014. The analysis carried out shows that the means of appropriation of the discourse of the Other can serve to effect various meanings, and that, when appropriating the discourse of the Other, the journalist-subject does not give his place to the Other, but rather speaks together with him, demonstrating ideological positioning in the news item.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5816136.v1
title: THE PRESUMED IMPARTIALITY OF JOURNALISTIC DISCOURSE: IDEOLOGICAL POSITIONING IN APPROPRIATING THE DISCOURSE OF OTHERS

description: ABSTRACT: This article engages with the discussion on the tension between objectivity and subjectivity in the field of journalism theory. Addressing the place of language in these studies, we propose that the modes of appropriating the discourse of the Other can be a way to reconcile this tension, as we raise the hypothesis that it is a mark of the socio-ideological positioning of the journalist-subject in relation to the object of utterance. Therefore, we begin with the concept of language from the Bakhtin Circle, examining the news from two of the most widely read newspapers in the State of Pernambuco – the Diário de Pernambuco and the Jornal do Commercio, respectively – which addresses Eduardo Campos, candidate to the presidency of Brazil in 2014. The analysis carried out shows that the means of appropriation of the discourse of the Other can serve to effect various meanings, and that, when appropriating the discourse of the Other, the journalist-subject does not give his place to the Other, but rather speaks together with him, demonstrating ideological positioning in the news item.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8226701
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.8226755.v1
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)