This article brings to light an important variable involved in explaining a type of competence divergence in an instance of bilingual acquisition: heritage speaker (HS) bilingualism. We present results of experiments with European Portuguese (EP) heritage speakers (HSs), showing that they have full morpho-syntactic and semantic competence of inflected infinitives, similar to EP monolinguals. We show this constitutes clear evidence of competence mismatches between heritage speakers of European and Brazilian ...
Tópico(s): Linguistic Variation and Morphology
2009 - SAGE Publishing | International Journal of Bilingualism
Acrísio Pires, Sarah G. Thomason,
This paper explores ways to synthesize methods from generative linguistics and historical linguistics to develop explanatory criteria that need to be satisfied by different attempts to carry out syntactic reconstruction. It addresses various questions such as (i) the need to define exactly what it means to reconstruct a language; (ii) characterizing the formal entities that count as the basic elements in the analysis of the empirical evidence for syntactic reconstruction, and whether the units of ...
Tópico(s): Linguistic Variation and Morphology
2008 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series 4, Current issues in linguistic theory
Jason Rothman, Tiffany Judy, Pedro Guijarro‐Fuentes, Acrísio Pires,
This study contributes to a central debate within contemporary generative second language (L2) theorizing: the extent to which adult learners are (un)able to acquire new functional features that result in a L2 grammar that is mentally structured like the native target (see White, 2003). The adult acquisition of L2 nominal phi-features is explored, with focus on the syntactic and semantic reflexes in the related domain of adjective placement in two experimental groups: English-speaking intermediate ( ...
Tópico(s): Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
2010 - Cambridge University Press | Studies in Second Language Acquisition
Acrísio Pires, Jason Rothman, Ana Lúcia Santos,
This study investigates the child (L1) acquisition of properties at the interfaces of morpho-syntax, syntax-semantics and syntax-pragmatics, by focusing on inflected infinitives in European Portuguese (EP). Three child groups were tested, 6–7-year-olds, 9–10-year-olds and 11–12-year-olds, as well as an adult control group. The data demonstrate that children as young as 6 have knowledge of the morpho-syntactic properties of inflected infinitives, although they seem at first glance to show partially ...
Tópico(s): Phonetics and Phonology Research
2010 - Elsevier BV | Lingua
Abstract. This paper investigates the syntax of clausal gerunds—a class of gerunds that can have either a null subject or an overt DP Case‐marked with accusative or nominative. First, it addresses the difficulty of accounting for gerunds that allow both null and overt subjects in principles and parameters/minimalist approaches to Case and control. Second, the paper explores the existence of a common structure for the two clausal gerunds, supported by the absence of empirical distinctions in their ...
Tópico(s): Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
2007 - Wiley | Syntax
... tense and/or agreement features. In this book, Acrísio Pires investigates this topic, searching for a unified ...
Tópico(s): Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
2007 - Ubiquity Press | Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
This book unifies the analysis of certain non-finite domains, focusing on subject licensing, agreement, and Case and control. It proposes a minimalist analysis of English gerunds which allows only a null subject PRO (TP-defective gerunds), a lexical subject (gerunds as complements of perception verbs), or both types of subjects (clausal gerunds). It then analyzes Portuguese infinitives, showing that the morphosyntactic properties of non-inflected and inflected infinitives correlate with distinct treatments ...
Tópico(s): Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
2006 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Linguistik aktuell
Alejandro Cuza, Pedro Guijarro‐Fuentes, Acrísio Pires, Jason Rothman,
This study investigates the extent to which advanced native-English L2 learners of Spanish come to acquire restrictions on bare plural preverbal subjects in L2 Spanish (e.g. gatos “cats” vs. definite plurals such as los gatos “the cats”). It tests L2 knowledge of available semantic readings of bare plurals and definite plurals in Spanish, where [+specific] and [+generic] interpretations are syntactically represented differently from English. Assuming L1 transfer, and in view of a potential subset/superset ...
Tópico(s): Phonetics and Phonology Research
2012 - SAGE Publishing | International Journal of Bilingualism
Samuel David Epstein, Acrísio Pires, T. Daniel Seely,
Abstract. This paper has two goals. First, it provides a solution to an important and particularly recalcitrant problem regarding non‐control infinitival complements of derived nouns, which have been argued to provide independent motivation for the retention of the EPP in T. Second, it presents an unnoted problem regarding the elimination of the EPP in infinitival complements of underived nouns, proposing an analysis for them that need not appeal to the EPP in T. To reach these goals, this paper ...
Tópico(s): Phonetics and Phonology Research
2005 - Wiley | Syntax
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Rodolpho G.G. Silva, Ilka M. Vasconcelos, Acrisio José Uchôa Bastos Filho, Ana Fontenele Urano Carvalho, Terezinha Souza, Darcy M.F. Gondim, Anna Lídia Nunes Varela, José T.A. Oliveira,
A novel trypsin inhibitor, named RcTI, was purified from castor bean cake (Ricinus communis L.) by heat treatment followed by chromatography on anhydrotrypsin-Sepharose 4B and Resource Q. RcTI is a 14 kDa competitive inhibitor with pI 5.2 and a dissociation constant (Ki) of 1.9 × 10−5 mM. The amino-terminal sequence showed similarity with a 2S sulfur-rich seed storage protein (83%) and napin-like protein (48%). RcTI was stable over a broad pH range and is exceptionally resistant to heating as it retained ...
Tópico(s): Entomopathogenic Microorganisms in Pest Control
2015 - Elsevier BV | Industrial Crops and Products
Chao-Ting Chou, Tsung-Ying Chen, Acrísio Pires,
Abstract The acquisition of the grammatical knowledge related to inflectional morphology and syntax-pragmatics interface have both been shown to be challenging for heritage speakers (e.g., Montrul et al. 2008 ; Polinsky 2006 , 2008 ; Sorace et al. 2009 ; Montrul 2009 ; Benmamoun et al. 2013a ; Laleko & Polinsky 2016 ). In these previous work on heritage language acquisition, the acquisition of inflectional morphology (e.g. either agreement morphology or topic marking) is also a relevant acquisition task associated ...
Tópico(s): Multilingual Education and Policy
2020 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | International Journal of Chinese Linguistics
Pedro Guijarro‐Fuentes, Acrísio Pires, Will Nediger,
Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: This study investigated the acquisition of Spanish Differential Object Marking (DOM) by bilingual and monolingual Spanish teenagers, evaluating to which extent their knowledge of DOM can be explained by different theories of acquisition. Design/Methodology/Approach: Two experiments with bilingual and monolingual Spanish teenagers (ages 10 to 15) were conducted. The experiments included an Elicited Production Completion Task, in which a space was to either ...
Tópico(s): Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
2015 - SAGE Publishing | International Journal of Bilingualism
This paper analyzes preverbal overt subjects, comparing Brazilian Portuguese to (other) null-subject languages, especially within Romance. It explores syntactic and semantic properties, including resumption, ellipsis, quantifiers and scope, variable binding, ordering restrictions, pronominal distinctions, minimality violations, bare nouns and definiteness. It concludes that preverbal subjects in Brazilian Portuguese can be realized both in argumental positions (Specifier of the Inflectional or Tense ...
Tópico(s): Phonetics and Phonology Research
2007 - PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE SÃO PAULO | DELTA Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada
Gonzalo Campos-Dintrans, Acrísio Pires, Jason Rothman,
This paper investigates the acquisition of syntax in L2 grammars. We tested adult L2 speakers of Spanish (English L1) on the feature specification of T(ense), which is different in English and Spanish in so-called subject-to-subject raising structures. We present experimental results with the verb parecer “to seem/to appear” in different tenses, with and without experiencers, and with Tense Phrase (TP), verb phrase ( v P) and Adjectival Phrase (AP) complements. The results show that advanced L2 learners ...
Tópico(s): Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
2012 - Cambridge University Press | Bilingualism Language and Cognition
... hypothèse que le mythe de la στάσις entre Acrisios et Proitos, qui oblige le cadet Proitos à ...
Tópico(s): Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
1986 - | Mètis Anthropologie des mondes grecs anciens
... cinq mythes du discobole meurtrier (Apollon/Hyacinthe, Persée/Acrisios, Pélée et Télamon/Phôcos, Her-mès/Crocos, Oxylos/ ...
Tópico(s): Classical Antiquity Studies
1988 - Publications Department of the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail | Pallas
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Tópico(s): Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
2011 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
Will Nediger, Acrísio Pires, Pedro Guijarro‐Fuentes,
Abstract This paper focuses on consequences for linguistic theory of a set of experiments on the L2 acquisition of Spanish Differential Object Marking (DOM), with three experimental groups: a native control group, a group of L2 learners whose L1 is English, and a group of L2 learners whose L1 is Brazilian Portuguese (BP). The results of the experiments shed light on two questions of theoretical import: (a) how best to characterize the syntax of Spanish DOM, and (b) whether BP should be classified as ...
Tópico(s): EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
2017 - De Gruyter | Applied Linguistics Review
... di Danae e Perseo abbandonati alle acque da Acrisio in una larnax. Il tentativo inutile di disfarsi ...
Tópico(s): Classical Antiquity Studies
2013 - | Gaia revue interdisciplinaire sur la Grèce Archaïque
Ana Lúcia Santos, Jason Rothman, Acrísio Pires, Inês Duarte,
Building on our previous experimental work examining the acquisition of inflected infinitives in European Portuguese (EP) L1 acquisition (e.g. Pires, Rothman & Santos 2010, 2011; Santos, Duarte, Pires & Rothman 2011), the present study investigates the emergence of inflected infinitives in young EP children’s spontaneous production data. EP children produce inflected infinitives as early as age 1;11, although early production is first exclusively restricted to para ‘for’ purpose clauses. We argue that ...
Tópico(s): Phonetics and Phonology Research
2013 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Language acquisition & language disorders
Acrisio Pires , The Minimalist syntax of defective domains: Gerunds and infinitives (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 98). Amsterdam & ...
Tópico(s): Linguistic Variation and Morphology
2008 - Cambridge University Press | Journal of Linguistics
... Child and Adult Language Acquisition edited by PIRES, ACRISIO, & JASON ROTHMAN FRANK NUESSEL, FRANK NUESSEL University of ...
Tópico(s): Linguistic Variation and Morphology
2011 - Wiley | Modern Language Journal
... AND ADULT LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: CASE STUDIES ACROSS PORTUGESE. Acrisio Pires and Jason Rothman (Eds.). Berlin: Mouton de ...
2011 - Cambridge University Press | Studies in Second Language Acquisition
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Tópico(s): Language and cultural evolution
2004 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Diachronica
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
... da abordagembiográfica para reconstruir a trajetória do professor Acrísio Cruz (1906-1969). A análisedocumental, os contatos informais ...
Tópico(s): Education Pedagogy and Practices
2013 - UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DA BAHIA | Revista da FAEEBA- Educação e Contemporaneidade
... da abordagembiográfica para reconstruir a trajetória do professor Acrísio Cruz (1906-1969). A análisedocumental, os contatos informais ...
Tópico(s): Education Pedagogy and Practices
2013 - UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DA BAHIA | Revista da FAEEBA- Educação e Contemporaneidade
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Jéssica Roberta Pereira Martins, Antonia Livânia Linhares de Aguiar, Karina Alexandre Barros Nogueira, Acrisio José Uchôa Bastos Filho, Thaís da Silva Moreira, Márjory Lima Holanda Araújo, Cláudia Pessoa, Josimar O. Eloy, Ivanildo José da Silva, Raquel Petrilli,
We aimed to encapsulate R-PE to improve its stability for use as a fluorescent probe for cancer cells. Purified R-PE from the algae Solieria filiformis was encapsulated in polymeric nanoparticles using PCL. Nanoparticles were characterised and R-PE release was evaluated. Also, cellular uptake using breast and prostate cancer cells were performed. Nanoparticles presented nanometric particle size (198.8 ± 0.06 nm) with low polydispersity (0.13 ± 0.022), negative zeta potential (-18.7 ± 1.10 mV), and 50.0 ± 7. ...
Tópico(s): Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization
2023 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Microencapsulation
Tópico(s): Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
2009 - | ENGLISH LINGUISTICS
This book constitutes a very useful collection of papers primarily on the acquisition of syntax and, to a lesser extent, on theoretical syntax and its interfaces with semantics, phonology and morphology. As it is often the case for book collections on Romance linguistics, the papers explore primarily Spanish, French and Italian (as a notable exception, three of the ten acquisition papers investigate Portuguese).
Tópico(s): Historical Linguistics and Language Studies
2008 - Ubiquity Press | Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
... are: ‘How much syntactic reconstruction is possible’ by Acrisio Pires and Sarah G. Thomason (27–72); ‘Reconstruction ...
Tópico(s): Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
2010 - Linguistic Society of America | Language