Marina Rosa Ana Augusto
List of John Benjamins publications in which Marina Rosa Ana Augusto is involved.
2024 Chapter 6. Relative clauses and intervention effects: Does the person feature matter? Language Acquisition in Romance Languages, Torrens, Vicenç (ed.), pp. 146–167 | Chapter
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the presence of pronoun elements as intervening subjects in the elicitation of object relative clauses (ORCs) by children and adults (as a control group). It has been argued that the presence of a full DP intervening subject in ORCs… 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
2021 Chapter 3. Cost-reducing strategies in the production of Brazilian Portuguese relative clauses: Language impairment in the syntactic domain L1 Acquisition and L2 Learning: The view from Romance, Avram, Larisa, Anca Sevcenco and Veronica Tomescu (eds.), pp. 67–82 | Chapter
This paper investigates the production of relative clauses (RCs) by Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children/adolescents, focusing on cost-reducing RCs strategies that may circumvent syntactic language impairment. Different types of RCs are elicited from participants at risk of language impairment… read more
2018 Favorable processing conditions in the production of passive sentences by Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children On the Acquisition of the Syntax of Romance, Gavarró, Anna (ed.), pp. 91–116 | Chapter
This study focuses on the production of passives by children (3–4 and 5–6 years old) under favorable conditions. An experiment is reported in which passives were elicited by priming in a Snap Game, where a central character was the patient of the events depicted in the cards to be described by the… read more
2018 Discrimination of passive predicates by Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children On the Acquisition of the Syntax of Romance, Gavarró, Anna (ed.), pp. 31–56 | Chapter
This paper investigates the discrimination of passive predicates by children acquiring Brazilian Portuguese. A truth-value judgment experiment is reported here which assesses 3–4- and 5–6-year-olds’ ability to discriminate eventive/stative and eventive/resultative predicates. The results show an… read more
2009 Chapter 4. Patterns of extraction out of factive Islands in Brazilian Portuguese Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax, Nunes, Jairo (ed.), pp. 69–92 | Article
This paper discusses the patterns of extraction that different factive constructions allow in Brazilian Portuguese. In addition to the more familiar cases of weak or strong island effects, it is shown that some factive constructions in fact allow extraction of both arguments and adjuncts. I propose… read more