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Null possessives in European Portuguese
, 2019 The paper investigates the referential properties of so-called null possessives in European Portuguese. The term refers to the phenomenon that the possessor argument of relational nouns may be left unrealized. Structural diagnostics like locality of binding and c-command, and interpretative diagnostics like readings under ellipsis and in only-contexts,
Weingart, Anja +3 more
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Portugal in the Eurozone: Evolution and Expectations
Scientific Annals of Economics and Business, 2019 At the time of joining the European Economic Community (precursor to the European Union) and the Eurozone, Portuguese agents were very optimistic about the level of development that the country would be able to achieve as a result of being a member of ...
Pedro Bação +2 more
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Vowel harmonization in Brazilian and in São Tomé Portuguese and the raising of the pre-stress /e/
Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, 2020 This article draws on the tenets of Variationist Sociolinguistics (LABOV, 1972, 1994, 2001) to examine the influence of the process of vocal harmonisation on raising of the pre-stress / e / in the Brazilian and São Tomé varieties of Portuguese.
Fabiane Rocha
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DiacríticaThis investigation focuses on the structural, semantic and aspectual properties of passive in Mandarin Chinese (MC) and European Portuguese (EP) from a descriptive perspective. The findings reveal systematic divergences between the two systems.
Minsi Hu
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From Brazilian Portuguese to European Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese are two varieties of the same language and, despite their close similarities, they exhibit several differences. However, there is a significant disproportion in the availability of resources between the two variants, with Brazilian Portuguese having more abundant resources.
Sanches, João +2 more
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Estimating Lexical Availability of European Portuguese Proverbs [PDF]
, 2017 This paper relates data on lexical availability with data on textual frequency of proverbs in European Portuguese. Each data source should provide different perspectives on the use of proverbs in the language. This should allow an empirically well-motivated selection of proverbs aiming at the development of NLP resources, specifically for applications ...
Reis, Sónia, Baptista, Jorge
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Dialectal Variation in European Portuguese Central Vowel Perception
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2020 The present paper aims at providing empirical evidence for dialectal variation concerning the perception of the central vowel [ɐ] in European Portuguese (EP). More concretely, this study compares the perception of the contrast between [a] and [ɐ] by native speakers of two varieties of EP: 23 speakers of a northern Portuguese dialect (from the city of ...
Horn, Valerie +2 more
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Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2003 This paper (i) describes the patterns of answers to yes-no questions in European Portuguese; (ii) presents data illustrating the acquisition of these patterns; (iii) argues that the acquisition of patterns of answer to yes-no questions in European ...
Ana Lúcia Santos
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Revista Portuguesa Otorrinolaringologia e Cirurgia de Cabeça e PescoçoThe Auditory Behavior Questionnaire is a validated tool used to assess atypical auditory behaviors in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The study aimed to translate and validate this questionnaire for use in European Portuguese. The linguistic and
Sara Costa +4 more
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