Program

Time (all talks): local Toronto time.

Day 1 | April 23, 2021

8:45 – 9:00 am  – Introduction Remarks

Session 1 (Chair: Maria Cristina Cuervo; moderator: Ohanna Severo)

9:00 – 9:30 am

The meaning of inchoative se in Brazilian Portuguese: a reapplication of Lundquist et al.’s (2016) experimentDownload (Abstract)
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Luana Amaral (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Cândido Oliveira (Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais) and Fernando Oliveira (Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto)

9:30 – 10:00 am

Investigating the comprehension of implicit objects in Brazilian PortugueseDownload (Abstract)

Ana Besserman and Elsi Kaiser (University of Southern California)

10:00 – 10:30 am

Are preverbal dative experiencers in European Portuguese “quirky” subjects? A self-paced reading study
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Pilar Barbosa, Juliana Gomes, Cristina Flores, Carmo Lourenço-Gomes and Sílvia Araújo (Universidade do Minho)

Break (10:30 – 10:45 am)

Session 2 (Chair: Myrto Grigoroglou; moderator: Vanina Machado)

10:45 – 11:15 am

Iterativity and habituality in L2 PortugueseDownload (Abstract)

Duarte Oliveira (Universidade do Minho)

11:15 – 11:45 pm

The role of language experience in the lexical development of European Portuguese as a heritage language. A study on Portuguese-German and Portuguese-French bilingual childrenDownload (Abstract)

Liliana Correia (Universidade do Minho)

11:45 – 12:15 pm

The role of type of structure, input variables and cross-linguistic effects in the performance on a cloze-test by heritage Portuguese children in SwitzerlandDownload (Abstract)

Cristina Flores (Universidade do Minho), Esther Rinke (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), Jacopo Torregrossa (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) and Maria de Lurdes Gonçalves (EPE, Instituto Camões)

Break (12:15 – 1:00 pm)

Session 3 (Chair: Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux; moderator: Natália Rinaldi)

1:00 – 1:30 pm

Language Acquisition and variable input: an outlook on number agreement in Brazilian Portuguese Download (Abstract)

Marina Maia Reis (Universidade Estadual de Campinas)

1:30 – 2:00 pm

The acquisition of D-genericity in Brazilian Portuguese: an experimental approachDownload (Abstract)

Ruan de Souza Mariano (Secretaria de Educação de Santa Catarina)

Break (2 – 2:10)

2:10 – 3:10 pm (Chair: Suzi Lima; moderator: Nadia Takhtaganova)

Invited talk: Brazilian bare nouns: experiments and adults language acquisitionDownload (Abstract)

Roberta Pires de Oliveira (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina/ Universidade Federal do Paraná/CNPq)

Day 2 | April 24, 2021

Session 4 (Chair: Keir Moulton; moderator: Owen Ward)

9:30 – 10:00 am

How null objects affect the comprehension of Garden paths in Brazilian Portuguese Download (Abstract)

Ana Besserman and Elsi Kaiser (University of Southern California)

10:00 am – 10:30 am

Is it possible not to notice the evidence?Download (Abstract)

Juliana Novo Gomes (Universidade do Minho) and Marcus Maia (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

10:30 am – 11:00 am

Speakers’ Subjective Evaluations of Direct Object Pronouns in Brazilian PortugueseDownload (Abstract)

Scott Schwenter, Paige Barton, Kendra Dickinson, and Márcia Macedo (The Ohio State University)

Break (11:00 – 11:15 am)

Session 5 (Chair: Laura Colantoni; moderator: Natália Rinaldi)

11:15 – 11:45 pm

Phonological acquisition of European Portuguese oral vowels: a perceptual study with Hungarian native speakersDownload (Abstract)

Gabriela Tavares (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa), Andrea Deme (Eötvös Loránd University) and Susana Correia (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)

11:45 – 12:15 pm

A blend corpus: steps for an experimentally driven description and analysis of blends in EP and BPDownload (Abstract)

Alina Villalva (Universidade de Lisboa) and Rafael Dias Minussi (Universidade Federal de São Paulo)

Break (12:15 – 1:00 pm)

1:00 – 2:00 (Chair: Anabela Rato; moderator: Nadia Takhtaganova)

Invited talk: Early Perception of Prosody is Language SpecificDownload (Abstract)

Sónia Frota (Universidade de Lisboa)