João Costa

ORCID: 0000-0003-3058-2227
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Research Areas
  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
  • Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition
  • Linguistics and Education Research
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Linguistics and Language Studies
  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
  • Second Language Learning and Teaching
  • linguistics and terminology studies
  • Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
  • Education and Digital Technologies
  • Linguistic Education and Pedagogy
  • Hearing Impairment and Communication
  • Linguistic research and analysis
  • Lexicography and Language Studies
  • Speech and dialogue systems
  • Language and cultural evolution
  • Migration, Racism, and Human Rights
  • ICT in Developing Communities

Canadian Linguistic Association
2008-2019

Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2003-2016

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
2015

Centro Regional de Derechos Humanos y Justicia de Género, Corporación Humanas
2012

University of Lisbon
1998

Leiden University
1996

This study develops a single elicitation method to test the acquisition of third-person pronominal objects in 5-year-olds for 16 languages. methodology allows us compare pronominals languages that lack object clitics ("pronoun languages") with employ relevant context ("clitic languages"), thus establishing robust cross-linguistic baseline domain clitic and pronoun production 5-year-olds. High rates are found our results, indicating children have pragmatic knowledge required select discourse...

10.1080/10489223.2015.1028628 article EN Language Acquisition 2015-05-28

This paper characterizes Contrastive Focus Fronting (CFF) in European Portuguese, distinguishing it from Topicalization and Evaluative exclamatives on the basis of syntactic interpretational tests illustrated with empirical evidence intuition/introspective judgments different types written sources. It reveals that lack consensus among speakers regarding CFF is a consequence fact Contemporary Portuguese includes two grammars CFF. One grammar less restrictive array constituents can be fronted....

10.1515/prbs.2011.006 article EN Probus 2011-01-01

In this paper, we argue that clitic omission in European Portuguese speaking children cannot be due to a late acquisition of pragmatics. Based on experimental data from an elicited production task and truth-value judgement task, show acquiring as first language know the appropriate pragmatic conditions for producing clitics null objects interpret context. However, their knowledge some syntactic constraints objects, which are grammatical only certain contexts adult grammar, is not fully...

10.1515/prbs.2009.005 article EN Probus 2009-01-01

In Hebrew, European Portuguese, Palestinian Arabic, and Spanish, both SV VS orders are possible. However, when children acquire these languages, they do not use the whole array of word in their language at first stage sentence construction. Interestingly, order preference early acquisition differs different languages: Hebrew Portuguese with unaccusative verbs, but only unergative transitive verbs. Spanish prefer to unaccusative, unergative, verbs stage. We present 11 experiments 5...

10.1080/10489223.2011.530507 article EN Language Acquisition 2011-01-10

O presente artigo analisa a eficácia das medidas protetivas previstas no ordenamento jurídico brasileiro enfrentamento ao estupro marital, considerando proteção integral vítimas e prevenção da revitimização. A pesquisa parte constatação de que, embora o conjugal seja reconhecido como crime desde reforma do Código Penal em 2009, sua aplicação prática enfrenta entraves jurídicos, culturais institucionais. estudo adota abordagem qualitativa, exploratória descritiva, com base análise documental...

10.51891/rease.v11i4.18756 article PT Revista Ibero-Americana de Humanidades, Ciências e Educação 2025-04-10

Abstract. Empirical evidence is presented in favour of the claim first made Pesetsky (1989) that English lexical verbs move overtly, as can be argued given order V‐Adverb‐PP . Extraction tests are used to show PP sequence at stake not extraposed across adverb, claimed Pollock (1994). It shown that, get a clear picture with respect placement verb, one has use adverbs which only left‐adjoined VP (e.g. well ).

10.1111/j.1467-9582.1996.tb00341.x article EN Studia Linguistica 1996-04-01

The status of the expression a gente (lit. people) in European Portuguese is topic this paper. We revisit its classical analysis, treating it as pronoun, and explanation for patterns agreement may trigger on inflected verb. In particular, paper addresses Taylor's (2009) argument against pronominal gente, argues that can be analyzed regular DP. compare with other pronouns, showing there are more robust regularities than those described arguments, but adopt part his analysis to accommodate...

10.1515/tlr-2013-0006 article EN The Linguistic Review 2013-01-13
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