Fernanda L. Ferreira
List of John Benjamins publications in which Fernanda L. Ferreira is involved.
Articles
2016 Reaching sentence and reference meaning Visually Situated Language Comprehension, Knoeferle, Pia, Pirita Pyykkönen-Klauck and Matthew W. Crocker (eds.), pp. 127–150 | Article
This chapter focuses on how people establish reference to objects in the external world and the meaning of sentences more broadly. The review proceeds from psychological and computational models of semantic memory up to how people establish reference to particular objects in the environment via… read more
2006 A linguistic time-capsule: Plural /s/ reduction in Afro-Portuguese and Afro-Hispanic historical texts Structure and Variation in Language Contact, Deumert, Ana and Stephanie Durrleman (eds.), pp. 263–289 | Chapter
The present study builds on the work of Lipski (2005a) regarding the nature and scope of Afro-Iberian language. It narrowly focuses on pluralization patterns found in historical texts covering five centuries. The analyses show that the representations of Black speech in Afro-Portuguese examples are… read more