Victor Gomes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3900073 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victor Gomes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victor |
| FAMILY NAME | Gomes |
| SIGNATURE | GOMES V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade de Brasília |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6838-7294 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Failure is always an option
Truth-functional negation presents a host of obstacles to a new language learner, ranging from abstractness (e.g., how can one point to it) to salience (e.g., it refers to things that are not occurring). It is therefore unclear how young learners learn truth-functional negation given the limitations in their knowledge about the world and still developing cognitive abilities. We explore the possibility that there are particular “ gem ” moments for…
English-learning preschoolers can correctly parse and interpret negative sentences to guide their interpretations of novel noun and verb meanings
We studied English-learning children’s ability to learn the meanings of novel words from sentences containing truth-functional negation (Exp1) and to use the semantics of negation to inform word meaning (Exp2). In Exp1, 22-month-olds (n = 21) heard dialogues introducing a novel verb in either negative-transitive (“Mary didn’t blick the baby”) or negative-intransitive (“Mary didn’t blick”) sentences. When then asked to “Find blicking!” while viewi…
It's not just what we don't know
Linguistic and non-linguistic cues to acquiring the strong distributivity of each
The universal quantifier each is more strongly distributive than its counterparts every and all. It forces predicates to apply to individuals, it more often supports pair-list readings, it’s unfriendly to genericity, and, in psycholinguistic tasks, it encourages encoding and remembering individual properties. But what information leads learners to acquire this aspect of em>each’s meaning? We explore the hypothesis that, because of its meaning, pa…
Estimating the Demand for Broadband Services in Brazil
Discrete-choice models were used to estimate the demand for broadband services in Brazil. Results indicate an elastic demand for fixed broadband. The demand price elasticity is greater for municipalities that rely on more than one economic group offering broadband: the monopoly will set the price for the broadband services to minimize competition between plans in the same category. Therefore, consumer's capability to react to higher prices is red…
"Look up!" Using easy words to explain how we learn hard words and other aspects of language, an interview with Lila Gleitman
Lila Gleitman is undoubtedly one of the world's foremost experts on language acquisition and developmental psycholinguistics. Starting in the 60s, she rose to prominence by bringing experimental methods from psychology to bear on the questions raised by linguistics and philosophers of language, namely how children could learn the rules of a language when there is so much ambiguity both in the language and in the world surrounding them. She has do…
Threatening to Increase Productivity
Threatening to Increase Productivity
"Look up!" Using easy words to explain how we learn hard words and other aspects of language, an interview with Lila Gleitman
Lila Gleitman is undoubtedly one of the world's foremost experts on language acquisition and developmental psycholinguistics. Starting in the 60s, she rose to prominence by bringing experimental methods from psychology to bear on the questions raised by linguistics and philosophers of language, namely how children could learn the rules of a language when there is so much ambiguity both in the language and in the world surrounding them. She has do…
Estimating the Demand for Broadband Services in Brazil
Discrete-choice models were used to estimate the demand for broadband services in Brazil. Results indicate an elastic demand for fixed broadband. The demand price elasticity is greater for municipalities that rely on more than one economic group offering broadband: the monopoly will set the price for the broadband services to minimize competition between plans in the same category. Therefore, consumer's capability to react to higher prices is red…
Linguistic and non-linguistic cues to acquiring the strong distributivity of each
The universal quantifier each is more strongly distributive than its counterparts every and all. It forces predicates to apply to individuals, it more often supports pair-list readings, it’s unfriendly to genericity, and, in psycholinguistic tasks, it encourages encoding and remembering individual properties. But what information leads learners to acquire this aspect of em>each’s meaning? We explore the hypothesis that, because of its meaning, pa…
English-learning preschoolers can correctly parse and interpret negative sentences to guide their interpretations of novel noun and verb meanings
We studied English-learning children’s ability to learn the meanings of novel words from sentences containing truth-functional negation (Exp1) and to use the semantics of negation to inform word meaning (Exp2). In Exp1, 22-month-olds (n = 21) heard dialogues introducing a novel verb in either negative-transitive (“Mary didn’t blick the baby”) or negative-intransitive (“Mary didn’t blick”) sentences. When then asked to “Find blicking!” while viewi…
It's not just what we don't know
Failure is always an option
Truth-functional negation presents a host of obstacles to a new language learner, ranging from abstractness (e.g., how can one point to it) to salience (e.g., it refers to things that are not occurring). It is therefore unclear how young learners learn truth-functional negation given the limitations in their knowledge about the world and still developing cognitive abilities. We explore the possibility that there are particular “ gem ” moments for…
Language Development and Disorders (5 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Language acquisition (3 works) · Negation (3 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Economics (2 works)