Ricardo Augusto De Souza

• Doctor
• Professor (Full) at Federal University of Minas Gerais

This paper reports on an interdisciplinary project involving the compilation a corpus of dream reports collected over the period between March of 2020 and March of 2021. The corpus encompasses narratives of images and scenes dreamed during the initial months of intense anxiety of the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic. The pandemic dreams corpus originated in a p...

Este estudo teve como objetivo contribuir para a investigação do conhecimento implícito de morfemas flexionais de aprendizes de inglês como segunda língua (L2). Para tanto, examinamos se aprendizes de inglês brasileiro detectam a omissão de morfemas flexionais em uma tarefa de leitura auto-cadenciada que requer conhecimento automatizado deles da L2...

The purpose of the present study was to contribute to current documented evidence of the challenges imposed by inflectional morphology in second language acquisition. We conducted two speeded acceptability judgment tasks with Brazilian Portuguese-English bilinguals with different linguistic profiles. We analyzed their behavior with respect to gramm...

A central assumption of construction-based theories of grammar (Fillmore, Kay and O’Connor 1988; Croft 2001; Michaelis 2012 among others), especially Construction Grammar (Goldberg, 1995, 2006), is that argument structure constructions, which are clausal patterns made of ordered sequences of syntactic slots paired with semantic content, have meanin...

In this work, we investigate the effects of transfer of training in late Brazilian Portuguese-English bilinguals, compared to natives, in relation to their processing of the English causative-have construction. Two experiments were conducted: one focused on the comprehension of the pattern, and the other focused on its production. The results of bo...

A aprendizagem da leitura em línguas adicionais é um componente central dos currículos de ensino destas línguas. Com vistas a aprofundarmos a discussão sobre a viabilidade do ensino da leitura em uma língua sem apoio da aprendizagem da oralidade, neste trabalho relatamos as observações de dois experimentos com tarefas de decisão lexical baseados no...

This study aims to investigate L2-to-L1 cross-linguistic influence on bilinguals’ representation and processing with three psycholinguistics tasks. The interest in this type of effect lies in its possible association with cognitive control development. Our study focuses on possible influences of the non-dominant language on the dominant language: w...

Estudos experimentais em Linguística apoiam-se em dados oriundos de desempenho de participantes em tarefas linguísticas. Portanto, a compreensão dos construtos abordados por tais tarefas é fundamental para a interpretação dos resultados gerados pelo trabalho experimental. Neste estudo, explora-se questões trazidas por um estudo previamente publicad...

Sustained interaction between a bilingual's two languages can be a first step toward diachronic language change. We describe two investigations that explore this by examining how bilinguals process innovative syntactic structures in their first language. In the first investigation, a sentence recall/sentence matching task, bilinguals and monolingua...

A transformational view of the passive construction does not account for all its possibilities. In this study, we propose a constructional view of the passive, in which it is considered an independent theoretical entity. Although the passive is syntactically identical in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and English, this construction cannot be considered...

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2016v69n1p17 In the present study we investigated a corollary of the multicompetence hypothesis as a description of language representation in bilingualism. According to this hypothesis, bilingualism entails a state of linguistic knowledge that does not correspond either to L1 or L2 norms. Previous studies examin...

This chapter examines off-line and on-line methodologies used to study bilinguals. We demonstrate how methodological choices in experimental design are linked to the theoretical frameworks within which the research is cast. We illustrate how to identify appropriate methodological paradigms drawing from research on the integration of languages in bi...

A tarefa de julgamento de aceitabilidade de sentenças temporalizadas é uma das técnicas de eliciação de julgamentos na qual se impõem restrições temporais aos juízes. Propõe-se que essa técnica proporciona observações mais fidedignas de conhecimento implícito e processos automatizados. Este estudo explora a definição de tetos temporais mínimos para...

A tarefa de julgamento de aceitabilidade é um método crucial em sintaxe experimental. Este estudo compara duas formas da tarefa – escalas Likert e estimativas de magnitude – na investigação da aprendizibilidade da construção resultativa do inglês por bilíngues do português do Brasil e do inglês. A resultativa é difícil para essa população, uma vez...

This is a study about the optionality observed in the placement of syntactic objects of unaccusative monoargumental verbs in Portuguese. These verbs allow for both pre-verbal or post-verbal subjects in this language. We sought to investigate the hypothesis that such grammatical optionality may diverge from what is observed in sentence processing, t...

Resumo: Neste trabalho revisitamos a hipótese da regeneração, que traz uma proposta sobre a natureza do mecanismo psicolinguístico que dá suporte à rememoração imediata de sentenças ouvidas ou lidas, em memória de curta duração. O artigo apresenta uma hipótese sobre a memorização de sentenças por bilíngues derivada dos pressupostos da hipótese da r...

A number of recent studies have provided evidence that bilingualism has effects on the first language representations of bilinguals who are immersed in the L2 environment, or who have undergone language dominance inversion. In this paper, we address the issue of whether bilingualism influences in the first language competence and performance are li...

The present study investigates the acquisition of the English double object constructions (GOLDBERG, 1995) by Brazilian learners. We hypothesize that, due to first language (L1) influences, the prepositional ditransitive construction (John gave a book to Mary) will be acquired earlier, while the ditransitive construction (John gave Mary a book) wil...

Este artigo apresenta os resultados de dois estudos de caso sobre as percepções de estudantes de língua inglesa acerca de atividades informatizadas envolvendo a tipologia “computador como tutor” e “computador como ferramenta”. A partir de dados coletados através de questionários e da análise de registros feitos pelos aprendizes em diários, ambos os...

Interlanguage studies tend to be dominated by investigations of strictly morphosyntactic phenomena. Issues of argument structure and argument realization are shown to be a potentially innovative theoretical approach to the study of L2 learners' knowledge of target language grammar, as they are framed as an interface between semantics and syntax. In...

L1 influences on L2 learning and use are phenomena vastlydocumented in L2 learning research (ODLIN, 1989; JARVIS & PAVLEN-KO, 2007). However, approaches to the inversed phenomenon, i.e.: L2 influences on L1, are more recent (COOK, 2003). Studies of L2 e" ectson the L1 tend to examine bilinguals living in the linguistic environmentsof the L2. In the...

Este artigo insere-se nos estudos das representações gramaticais de bilíngues.Abordamos a variabilidade de marcação de morfologia de flexão de tempo,aspecto e concordância no inglês como segunda língua. Objetivamos avaliarconcepções sobre as representações bilíngues a partir de dois modelos daorganização da gramática que as fomentam. Para tal fim,...

This paper argues that one of the challenges facing language learners working in telecollaborative computer-mediated projects is dealing with the divergences they will find between their collaborators learning contexts and their own. This point will be illustrated through a report of a portuguese-english language learning experience developed withi...

This paper aims at presenting a general overview of the array of pedagogical practices known as "computer-assisted language learning (CALL)". Taking as a departure point insights about the historical development of CALL as a field, this essay seeks to emphasize the field's deep roots in prevailing perspectives on second and foreign language educati...