Erica Rodrigues
List of John Benjamins publications in which Erica Rodrigues is involved.
Articles
2024 Chapter 9. Quantifier comprehension in Brazilian Portuguese and the extra-object visual effect Language Acquisition in Romance Languages, Torrens, Vicenç (ed.), pp. 212–229 | Chapter
Universal quantifiers are complex for children to comprehend, and over-exhaustive errors can occur even with adults in sentence-picture verification tasks. This paper addresses visual design factors that may explain these difficulties. We examine what we call the “single extra object attraction… read more
2021 Chapter 2. Strategies in the production of PP relative clauses in Brazilian Portuguese L1 Acquisition and L2 Learning: The view from Romance, Avram, Larisa, Anca Sevcenco and Veronica Tomescu (eds.), pp. 39–66 | Chapter
This study focuses on the production of Prepositional Phrase Relative Clauses (PP RCs) by Brazilian 4-/5-year-olds, aiming at discussing the types of responses children produce, compared to adults, considering competing alternatives pragmatically available in the language. Difficulty with… read more