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Portuguese is a Romance language originating from the Iberian Peninsula, primarily spoken in Portugal and Brazil, and recognized as an official language in several countries and regions. It evolved from Latin and has a rich literary and cultural heritage, influencing and being influenced by various languages and cultures throughout history.
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Portuguese is a Romance language originating from the Iberian Peninsula, primarily spoken in Portugal and Brazil, and recognized as an official language in several countries and regions. It evolved from Latin and has a rich literary and cultural heritage, influencing and being influenced by various languages and cultures throughout history.

Key research themes

1. How is the Portuguese language transmitted and maintained as a heritage language in immigrant communities?

This research area investigates the transmission, preservation, and identity-related challenges of Portuguese as a heritage language among immigrant families living in non-Portuguese majority countries, particularly focusing on Brazilian Portuguese speakers in Spain. It examines parental strategies and attitudes, institutional support, and the socio-cultural factors affecting heritage language retention and identity formation. Understanding these dynamics is crucial to language maintenance policies, pedagogical approaches, and sociolinguistic integration of immigrant populations.

Key finding: The study found that Brazilian immigrant families in Spain exhibit a high level of awareness about their crucial role in transmitting Portuguese as a heritage language to their children, who often grow up in a multilingual... Read more

2. What phonological and syntactic variations characterize African varieties of Portuguese and how do language contact and internal linguistic factors shape them?

This theme explores the distinctive phonological and syntactic features of Portuguese spoken in African countries such as Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe. It includes investigations into prosodic phenomena like intonation patterns of interrogatives and relative clause formation, assessing whether these varieties conform to European Portuguese norms or manifest localized innovations shaped by substrate languages and sociolinguistic contexts. The research advances understanding of language contact effects, nativization processes, and intra-varietal diversity in Portuguese as an emerging lingua franca in multilingual African settings.

Key finding: The analysis of neutral yes-no questions in Guinea-Bissau Portuguese (GBP) revealed that its intonation patterns diverge significantly from Standard European Portuguese (SEP). Using Prosodic and Intonational Phonology... Read more
Key finding: Through corpus-based investigation of locative relative clauses in Angolan, Mozambican, and Santomean Portuguese, the study found shared syntactic relativization mechanisms such as pied-piping and P-chopping consistent with... Read more

3. How are digital and computational tools advancing Portuguese language resources for linguistic and educational applications?

This research theme focuses on the development and application of digital corpora, valency dictionaries, and automatic generation tools for Portuguese and related languages such as Galician. It assesses the design, methodology, and efficacy of NLP resources like online searchable corpora with morphosyntactic tagging and automatic nominal phrase generators. These tools facilitate linguistic analysis, language teaching, lexicography, and natural language processing tasks. Enhancing resource accessibility and linguistic data quality supports research as well as practical educational and technological developments in Portuguese.

Key finding: The paper describes the establishment of sizeable, morphosyntactically annotated and tagged corpora of European Portuguese, including spoken and written registers, accessible online via concordancers with lemmatizers. The... Read more
Key finding: The development of XeraWord, an innovative automatic nominal phrase generation tool for Portuguese and Galician, adapts previous methodologies applied to German, French, and Spanish. It leverages valency dictionaries and... Read more

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Este trabalho explora relações entre fatores socioeconômicos e demográficos e a produção de resíduos sólidos domiciliares -o lixo doméstico -, para o município de Belo Horizonte em 2002. A proposta foi investigar se diferenciais... more
This paper not only reviews the motives underlying the Portuguese expansionist project in Morocco in the 15 th century, but also the political, economic, and particularly the social reasons that were in the basis of the Portuguese art of... more
A coletânea Linguística: da sintaxe ao discurso teve seu primeiro volume publicado em 2021, quando então contei com a colaboração do Prof. Dr. Tiago Aguiar, da Universidade Federal da Paraíba. Naquele período, eu e outros colegas, entre... more
A Jesus Cristo, meu Senhor e Salvador, que me concedeu a vida e a oportunidade de cursar Doutorado numa instituição tão respeitável como a PUC-Rio. À minha orientadora, Prof.ª Dr.ª Erica dos Santos Rodrigues, pelo estímulo, pela parceria,... more
O objetivo deste estudo consistiu em analisar a relação entre variáveis cinemáticas que afetam a posição do ciclista na bicicleta com a distribuição do peso corporal pelo selim e pelo guiador no ciclista. A amostra foi constituída por 23... more
O objetivo deste estudo consistiu em analisar a relação entre variáveis cinemáticas que afetam a posição do ciclista na bicicleta com a distribuição do peso corporal pelo selim e pelo guiador no ciclista. A amostra foi constituída por 23... more
EnglishThe aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between kinematic variables affecting the cyclists position on the bike with the distribution of body weight by the saddle and the handlebars of the cyclist. The sample... more
A peca Quando si e qualcuno foi esquecida por um longo periodo, tanto pela critica quanto pela cena teatral italiana e mundial. A montagem mais recente se deu na Italia em 2005, quase setenta anos depois de sua estreia, em 1933. No... more
Purpose-This paper reviews the literature on disability inclusion (DI) in supply and demand chains of hospitality and tourism (H&T) organisations. The purpose of this study is to assess disability support and interventions within H&T... more
A navegação consulta e descarregamento dos títulos inseridos nas Bibliotecas Digitais UC Digitalis, UC Pombalina e UC Impactum, pressupõem a aceitação plena e sem reservas dos Termos e Condições de Uso destas Bibliotecas Digitais,... more
Este texto parte de un análisis neomaterialista para problematizar las estrategias materialmecánica para, a continuación, indagar sobre el funcionamiento político de las publicaciones en la marcada por la presencia de algoritmos.... more
The Anatomy of the State, Rothbard (2018), American economist and had his article published by the Mises Institute in 2012. Translated and adapted into Brazilian Portuguese by Leandro Augusto Gomes Roque & Fernando Fiori Chiocca. The book... more
Brazil is one of the countries with the highest level of drug consumption in the world. By 2012 about 66% claimed to practice self-medication. Such activity can lead to a wide range of risks, including death from drug intoxication.... more
Resumo:A obra de Nuno Marques Pereira, Compêndio narrativo do peregrino da América, publicada em 1728, pertence ao vasto repertório da literatura de cunho moralizante produzida entre os séculos XVI e XVIII. Trata-se da narrativa de viagem... more
First and foremost, a hearEelt thank you to my partner, Chris3an, for his unfailing support and for taking care of our children during this 3me. I am also deeply grateful to my children for enduring my absence, especially towards the end... more
Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade ... Lusophony: Communication in the Portuguese Speaking World • ... Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade Campus de Gualtar 4710-057 Braga Portugal ... • SOUSA, H.... more
Cruz. I am grateful to the faculty, staff, and the students for their support of my research. I would especially like to express my thanks to the reviewers for their inspiring criticizms and encouraging comments.
The article deals with the actual problem of modern higher pedagogical education, connected with the formation and development of professional competencies of the future history teacher. Various interpretations of the concept of... more
O trabalho apresenta, a partir do exemplo do douto Sa de Miranda, que recusa a expressao em lingua latina, o movimento de defesa e ilustracao do portugues quinhentista como parte da empresa imperial lusiada.
são ainda jovens, com aproximadamente, 160 anos de existência. Apesar de os primeiros textos datarem da segunda metade do século XIX, só no século XX, na década de 30 em Cabo Verde (com Claridade), e nos anos 50 em Angola (com Mensagem),... more
For the most important variables in the Portuguese Household Finance and Consumption Survey (ISFF), missing data is imputed using a stochastic multiple imputation algorithm, as agreed in the Household Finance and Consumption Network of... more
ABSTRACTThe generality of the orthographic consistency effect in speech recognition tasks previously reported for Portuguese beginning readers was assessed in French-speaking children, as the French orthographic code presents a higher... more
ABSTRACTIlliterate, unschooled adults were tested on their notions of word length. Experiment 1 showed that only about half of them performed very poorly on a task requiring the production of a long/short word. They were clearly inferior... more
trer perception and Dyslexia: The usual suspect? , J. Morais3; R. Kolinsky3a4 ther dyslexics' performance is cause or consequence of reading level. In this study ups of children (dyslexics, age-matched, reading-matched controls) performed... more
Resumo: Na perspectiva hegemônica do Estado Avaliador, as avaliações em larga escala -ou avaliações de sistemas educacionais -têm assumido o protagonismo na condução das políticas e na atual composição da agenda educacional. Diante desse... more
Currently, large-scale evaluations are one of the most effective actions in defining the directions of education in Brazil. But what is the historical scenario of large-scale evaluations and what are the implications of such a scenario... more
Resumo: Na perspectiva hegemônica do Estado Avaliador, as avaliações em larga escala -ou avaliações de sistemas educacionais -têm assumido o protagonismo na condução das políticas e na atual composição da agenda educacional. Diante desse... more
The article analyzes the relationship between the External Evaluation of Schools (EES) - which takes place in Portugal since 2006 - and the curricular management processes. Its objective is to identify the effects of this evaluation on... more
Meu País a partir de teorias do nacionalismo (especialmente Ernst Renan, Ernest Gellner, Benedict Anderson e Eric Hobsbawm). Diferentemente de estudos que privilegiam a viabilidade econômica ou jurídica do movimento, o foco aqui é... more
Objectives: The aims of this study were to evaluate the level of overall job satisfaction among a group of Brazilian dentists and to test the validity of a cross-cultural translation to Brazilian Portuguese of the modified version of the... more
Introduction: A growing number of countries have legalized the process of hastening death. At a time when laws decriminalizing hastened death have been passed in the Portuguese Parliament, the development of research related with decision... more
O texto literário é frequentemente evocado como uma ferramenta de acesso a novas perspectivas e de potencial reformulação das representações de si e do “outro”. Ao mesmo tempo, teorias culturais contemporâneas reforçam a necessidade de... more
Introduction Professional identity formation (PIF) is recognized worldwide as an outcome of medical education grounded in the psychology of adult development and the literature on medical professionalism. However, instruments to assess... more
The decennial exposition of St. Francis Xavier concluded on the 5th of January 2025. Lakhs upon lakhs converged in Old Goa to pay their respect to the relics of the saint. While being loved and shown reverence around the globe, the... more
Objective: The present study aimed to analyse the social representations of Psychology in a sample of Portuguese respondents, thus contributing to a better understanding of the social meaning of this scientific area. Method: A free... more
Objective: Clinically validate the Neonatal Skin Condition Score - Portuguese version with Portuguese newborns, verifying if the risk of skin injury in this population is influenced by their condition. Method: Observational,... more
Resumo: se apresenta um método para a avaliação de resultados das pesquisas na área de Educação através do "Critério dos Especialistas", concebido após a reestruturação sistêmica do Método Delphi. A metodologia empregada utilizou... more
We aim to validate a European-Portuguese version of the Hypertension Knowledge Test (HKT) questionnaire and examine its factorial structure with a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). A process of translation and back-translation was... more
Introduction. the goal of this work is to validate tools to assess clinical competences of undergraduate medical students in the workplace. one of the most well-known scales is the Mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise (Mini-CEX). this scale... more
Although 20 th -century scientific discourse disregarded affect as unscientific, and despite this being contested by thinkers such as Nietzsche and Spinoza, only recently could we scientifically argue that affect is inseparable from... more
Objective: to describe the process of cross-cultural adaptation of the Condom Embarrassment Scale for use in the Brazilian context. Method: methodological study that included the following steps: initial translation of the original scale... more
The growing amount of available information and the importance given to the access to technical information enhance the potential role of NLP applications in enabling users to deal with information for a variety of knowledge domains. In... more
In this paper we describe the general architecture and the main structuring relations of the Portuguese WordNet, under construction within the WordNet.PT project*. We also present empirical and technical motivations for information... more
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