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Locativos preposicionados em posição de sujeito : uma possivel contribuição da línguas Bantu à sintaxe do português brasileiro [PDF]

Linguística, 2008
We observe the existing contrast between Brazilian and European Portuguese in relation to prepositional locatives in embedded sentences, and we argue that those constituents can occupy the grammatical subject position in transitive sentences in Brazilian
Juanito Avelar, Juanito Avelar, Sonia Cyrino, Sonia Cyrino   +3 more
doaj  

Priming semantic structure in Brazilian Portuguese

Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 2018
Structural priming, the tendency for speakers to reuse previously encountered sentence structures, provides some of the strongest evidence for the existence of abstract structural representations in language. In the present research, we investigate the priming of semantic structure in Brazilian Portuguese using the locative alternation: A menina ...
Rodrigo Altair Morato, Rodrigo Altair Morato, Jesse Snedeker, Jayden Ziegler   +3 more
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A limited global perspective on what makes anatomical public engagement good or bad

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Anatomical public engagement has the potential to enhance anatomical literacy and patient–provider communication. However, the lack of consensus on effective practices, ethical considerations, and cultural sensitivities poses challenges for anatomists conducting outreach events.
Victoria Gomez, Janet A. C. Philp, Jason M. Organ, Kat A. Sanders   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ter/Haver-Constructions and Verbal Agreement

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2013
The aim of this paper is twofold: (i) to analyze the use of the verbs ter and haver in the history of Portuguese and, more specifically, in a recent stage of Brazilian Portuguese, in which the possessive ter is used as an existential verb; and (ii) to ...
Dinah Callou, Juanito Avelar
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The Intonation of Absolute Questions of Brazilian Portuguese

Linguistics and Literature Studies, 2013
In this paper we describe three melodic patterns of absolute interrogatives from a phonetic point of view, obtained from a corpus in Goiás (Brazil). The patterns are: a) Rising Final Inflection (30% to 52%), b) Rising-Falling Final Inflection, c) High Nucleus Final Inflection.
Cantero Serena, Francisco José, 1964-, Font Rotchés, Dolors   +1 more
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A novel decision support system for designing and assessing phytoremediation‐to‐biofuel value chains

Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, EarlyView.
Abstract The design of biofuel value chains is a complex process due to the large number of stakeholders involved, seasonality in feedstock availability, security of supply, logistics costs, efficiency considerations, and its multi‐node nature. Decisions on designing phytoremediation‐to‐biofuel value chains are even more complicated, due to the ...
Athanasios Rentizelas, Paraskevas N. Georgiou, Dimitrios Giannopoulos, Christos Stavrogiannis, Thanasis Papadakis, Ioannis T. Christou, Fragkoulis Psathas, Despina Anastasopoulos   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using Portuguese BRCA pathogenic variation as a model to study the impact of human admixture on human health

BMC Genomics
Background Admixture occurs between different ethnic human populations. The global colonization in recent centuries by Europeans led to the most significant admixture in human history.
Stephanie Andaluz, Bojin Zhao, Siddharth Sinha, Philip Naderev Panuringan Lagniton, Diogo Alpuim Costa, Xiaofan Ding, Miguel Brito, San Ming Wang   +7 more
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Coerção e subespecificação: nomes nus no inglês e no português brasileiro

Revista Linguística
This paper investigates the semantics of bare nouns in English and Brazilian Portuguese, analyzing the results of experiments in the count-mass domain in both languages.
Gitanna Bezerra, Roberta Pires de Oliveira, Dionatan Bastos Cardozo, Diego Rodrigues Lopes   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Neural Machine Translation into Language Varieties

, 2018
Both research and commercial machine translation have so far neglected the importance of properly handling the spelling, lexical and grammar divergences occurring among language varieties.
Erofeeva, Aliia, Federico, Marcello, Lakew, Surafel M.   +2 more
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Immigrants and body modifications in the consumer society [PDF]

, 2018
This article presents the results of the research project “Identity process, immigration and plastic surgeries”. The investigation took place from 2013 to 2014 in Portugal and Spain.
Ennes, Marcelo, Ramos, Natália
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