Name: Letícia Almeida
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Academic Degree: Ph.D
Professional Status: Assistant Professor of Linguistics; School of Health, Universidade Atlântica
CLUL's Research Sector: ANAGRAMA
Research Areas: Bilingual First Language Acquisition; Phonology.
Academic Degrees:
- Ph.D in Portuguese Linguistics (2012). University of Lisbon.
- M.A. in Portuguese Linguistics (2006). University of Lisbon.
Activities:
- 2006-2010. Grant from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia for Ph.D research: Bilingual acquisition of syllable structure - European Portuguese and French
- 2008-2010. Member of the project “Aquisição do Português Europeu: recursos e resultados linguísticos” [Acquisition of European Portuguese: linguistic resources and results]; CLUL.
Publications:
2012- Almeida, L., Rose, Y & M. J. Freitas
"Prosodic influence in bilingual phonological development: evidence from a French-Portuguese bilingual learner". In Proceedings of the 36th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cascadilla Press.
2010
- Almeida, L., Costa, T. & M. J. Freitas
Estas portas e janelas: assimetria na aquisição das sibilantes em Português Europeu
In: Actas do XXV Encontro Nacional da APL. Lisboa: Colibri.
2008
- Almeida, L.
“Compensatory lengthening in bilingual acquisition of languages insensitive to syllable weight”.
In A. Gavarró & M.J. Freitas (eds.) Language Acquisition and Development : Proceedings of GALA 2007. Cambridge : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 30-40. - Almeida, L.
“Aspectos do desenvolvimento fonológico em contexto de bilinguismo simultâneo”.
in C. Flores (org.). Temas em Bilinguismo. Colecção Hespérides. Linguística, 7. Braga: Centro de Estudos Humanísticos, 89-110.
2007
- Almeida, L.
Aquisição das Codas mediais por uma criança bilingue português-francês.
In Actas do XXII Encontro Nacional da APL. Lisboa: Colibri.
Invited Talks
2010
- Almeida, L. & M. J. Freitas
Target phonologies in bilingual and monolingual development of branching onsets.
Presented atWorkshop
PhonBank:
Future
Directions,
Newfoundland.
2009
- Almeida, L., Costa, T. & Freitas, M. J.
“Onset/Coda asymmetries in the acquisition of sibilants in European Portuguese”.
Presented at Workshop on Complexity, Typology and Acquisition, Lyon.
2007
- Almeida, L.
“Acquiring word-medial Codas in a French-Portuguese bilingual environment”.
Presented at Workshop Issues on Bilingualism. Braga.