Fernanda Ferreira
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3761867 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Fernanda Ferreira |
| PRENOMES | Fernanda |
| SOBRENOME | Ferreira |
| ASSINATURA | FERREIRA F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9349-9300 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 251 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The Myth of Normal Reading
We argue that the educational and psychological sciences must embrace the diversity of reading rather than chase the phantom of normal reading behavior. We critically discuss the research practice of asking participants in experiments to read “normally.” We then draw attention to the large cross-cultural and linguistic diversity around the world and consider the enormous diversity of reading situations and goals. Finally, we observe that people b…
Do you chill when I chill? A cross-cultural study of strong emotional responses to music
Replication of Cutler, A., & Fodor, J. A. (1979). Semantic focus and sentence comprehension. Cognition, 7(1), 49–59
Outdoor Tourism Demand Segmentation
This research aimed to segment the market of visitors who practise outdoor activities in the North region of Portugal based on their motivations. An online survey was conducted between June to September of 2021, with a sample of 200 tourists who realised the region's outdoor activities during this period. The data collected allowed determining factor analysis and the clusters. Two factors: services/hospitality and nature experiences, and three cl…
He May Certainly Have Forgotten”
This article presents a series of three experiments investigating the processing of nested epistemic expressions, utterances containing two epistemic modals in one clause, such as “he certainly may have forgotten.” While some linguists claim that in a nested epistemic expression one modal is semantically embedded within the scope of the other modal based on the word order, it is possible that in daily conversation the scope of nested modals may n…
What causes lingering misinterpretations of garden-path sentences
Os sons do português
Reviewed by: Os sons do português: Uma introdução prática à fonética e à pronúncia da língua portuguesa by André Zampaulo Fernanda Ferreira Zampaulo, André. Os sons do português: Uma introdução prática à fonética e à pronúncia da língua portuguesa. Routledge, 2019. Pp. 279. ISBN 978-1-138-22551-0. As noted by the title, this book is written in Portuguese on the topic of Portuguese phonetics and pronunciation. It is an indispensable addition to th…
In defense of the passive voice
Writers of scientific articles are familiar with the advice to avoid using the passive voice. Prescriptivists argue that the passive leads to bloated, indirect, and even evasive writing, and they recommend that the active form be used instead. This article defends the passive voice against these charges and argues that this advice is misguided. The article begins with a summary of the passive construction and the diversity of its forms, many of w…
The Problem of Comprehension in Psycholinguistics
Most research in psycholinguistics relies on online measures such as reading time to inform and test theories of language comprehension. However, the value of offline measures such as question-answering performance is sometimes overlooked in sentence processing work. Consequently, psycholinguists do not yet understand how the tasks and measures used in online experiments might reflect the content of the representations that are formed by the subj…
Processing of It and This in Written Narrative Discourse
Two experiments explored the hypothesis that anaphors and demonstratives signal different procedural instructions: Whereas the anaphor it brings a concrete entity into a reader's focus, the demonstrative this directs the focus to a predicate proposition in a discourse representation. The findings from an online eye-tracking reading experiment confirm that preferences for it and this differ as predicted. Moreover, a sentence-completion experiment …
Português como língua de herança em Londres
Reviewed by: Português como língua de herança em Londres: Recortes em casa, na igreja e na escola ed. by Ana Souza Fernanda Ferreira Souza, Ana, org. Português como língua de herança em Londres: Recortes em casa, na igreja e na escola. Campinas: Pontes. Pp. 150. ISBN 978-8-57113-689-2. O título deste livro, além do próprio sumário, aponta para uma abordagem extensiva da questão do português como língua de herança em comunidades brasileiras no Rei…
A Handbook for Portuguese Instructors in the US by Margo Milleret, and Mary Risner
Reviewed by: A Handbook for Portuguese Instructors in the US by Margo Milleret, and Mary Risner Fernanda Ferreira Milleret, Margo, and Mary Risner, eds. A Handbook for Portuguese Instructors in the US. Boavista, 2016. Pp. 255. ISBN 978-0996051187. As the title indicates, A Handbook for Portuguese Instructors in the US is a handy manual for instructors of Portuguese who work (or plan to work) in the American higher education system. After a prefac…
Portuguese language programs in New England
The present study outlines the current Portuguese language offerings in select New England universities and colleges vis-à-vis a call for more specialized heritage learner programs in Portuguese. Building on and garnering theoretical support from more established heritage language programs in Spanish, this study details the learner profiles and goals of existing programs in local educational institutions. The goal is to delineate the gaps and opp…
Keith Rayner (1943–2015)
Keith Rayner, holder of the Atkinson Chair in Psychology at the University of California, San Diego, passed away on January 21, 2015, from complications due to cancer. Keith was born on June 20, 1943, in Dover, England. Keith was the major figure in the study of cognitive processes in reading, defining its approaches, techniques, and questions over four decades. Keith's main line of research involved the use of eye-movement measurement to probe t…
Deixis
The existing literature presents conflicting models of how this and that access different segments of a written discourse, frequently relying on implicit analogies with spoken discourse. On the basis of this literature, we hypothesized that in written discourse, this more readily accesses the adjacent/right frontier of a preceding chunk of text, whereas that more readily accesses the distant/left. We tested this hypothesis in two eye-tracking exp…
Retrato do Brasil em Cordel (review)
Reviewed by: Retrato do Brasil em Cordel Fernanda Ferreira Curran, Mark. Retrato do Brasil em Cordel. Cotia, SP: Ateliê, 2011. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-85-7480-538-2. Mark Curran’s Retrato do Brasil em Cordel attempts to give the reader a “snapshot” of Brazilian culture and society through the lens of Literatura de Cordel, a literary art form of printed booklets, often sold in street markets in Northeast Brazil. The stories are written in simple verses,…
Processing Coordination Ambiguity
We examined temporarily ambiguous coordination structures such as put the butter in the bowl and the pan on the towel. Minimal Attachment predicts that the ambiguous noun phrase the pan will be interpreted as a noun-phrase coordination structure because it is syntactically simpler than clausal coordination. Constraint-based theories assume that interpretations are the result of a constraint-satisfaction process, which predicts that frequency or c…
The 'Good Enough' Approach to Language Comprehension
Ferreira and colleagues argued that the language comprehension system creates syntactic and semantic representations that are merely 'good enough' (GE) given the task that the comprehender needs to perform. GE representations contrast with ones that are detailed, complete, and accurate with respect to the input. In this article, we review the original argument for GE processing, and we present new evidence that supports the concept: first, local …
Younger and Older Adults' "Good-Enough" Interpretations of Garden-Path Sentences
We report 3 experiments that examined younger and older adults' reliance on "good-enough" interpretations for garden-path sentences (e.g., "While Anna dressed the baby played in the crib") as indicated by their responding "Yes" to questions probing the initial, syntactically unlicensed interpretation (e.g., "Did Anna dress the baby?"). The manipulation of several factors expected to influence the probability of generating or maintaining the unlic…
Psycholinguistics, formal grammars, and cognitive science
In the 1980s, Charles Clifton referred to a "psycholinguistic renaissance" in cognitive science. During that time, there was almost unanimous agreement that any self-respecting psycholinguist would make sure to keep abreast of major developments in generative grammar, because a competence model was essential, and the linguistic theory was the proper description of that competence. But today, many psycholinguists are disenchanted with generative g…
That's Not How My Grandmother Says It
This paper discusses language-learning experiences of Portuguese-language learners from different ethnic backgrounds (Azores, Madeira, Cape Verde), enrolled in intermediate Portuguese at a southeastern Massa chusetts state college. Sociolinguistic and affective outcomes of the course are analyzed, revealing similarities to other heritage-language learners' experiences. The study espouses a qualitative approach to pedagogical analysis, employing a…
The Interface of Language, Vision, and Action
F. Ferreira, J.M. Henderson, Introduction to the Integration of Language, Vision and Action. J.M. Henderson, F. Ferreira, Scene Perception for Psycholinguists. K. Rayner, S.P. Liversedge, Visual and Linguistic Processing During Eye Fixations in Reading. D.E. Irwin, Fixation Location Duration as Indices of Cognitive Processing. J.M. Findlay, Eye Scanning and Visual Search. M.J. Spivey, D.C. Richardson, S.A. Fitneva, Thinking Outside the Brain: Spa…
The misinterpretation of noncanonical sentences
Age Preservation of the Syntactic Processor in Production
Good-Enough Representations in Language Comprehension
People comprehend utterances rapidly and without conscious effort. Traditional theories assume that sentence processing is algorithmic and that meaning is derived compositionally. The language processor is believed to generate representations of the linguistic input that are complete, detailed, and accurate. However, recent findings challenge these assumptions. Investigations of the misinterpretation of both garden-path and passive sentences have…
Good-Enough Representations in Language Comprehension
People comprehend utterances rapidly and without conscious effort. Traditional theories assume that sentence processing is algorithmic and that meaning is derived compositionally. The language processor is believed to generate representations of the linguistic input that are complete, detailed, and accurate. However, recent findings challenge these assumptions. Investigations of the misinterpretation of both garden-path and passive sentences have…
The 'Good Enough' Approach to Language Comprehension
Ferreira and colleagues argued that the language comprehension system creates syntactic and semantic representations that are merely 'good enough' (GE) given the task that the comprehender needs to perform. GE representations contrast with ones that are detailed, complete, and accurate with respect to the input. In this article, we review the original argument for GE processing, and we present new evidence that supports the concept: first, local …
Effects of length and syntactic complexity on initiation times for prepared utterances
Younger and Older Adults' "Good-Enough" Interpretations of Garden-Path Sentences
We report 3 experiments that examined younger and older adults' reliance on "good-enough" interpretations for garden-path sentences (e.g., "While Anna dressed the baby played in the crib") as indicated by their responding "Yes" to questions probing the initial, syntactically unlicensed interpretation (e.g., "Did Anna dress the baby?"). The manipulation of several factors expected to influence the probability of generating or maintaining the unlic…
Misinterpretations of Garden-Path Sentences
Verb frame preferences
Children's metalinguistic knowledge of syntactic constituents
This study used the school cutoff methodology to examine the development of chiIdren's metalinguistic knowledge of the syntactic subject of a sentence. Two groups of children matched in age and background variables but differing in amount of schooling were tested at ages 5, 6, and 7. The children's task was to listen to a sentence and repeat either the subject or the subject and verb. The subject was a pronoun, a proper name, a 2-word sequence, o…
Exploring the use of prosody during language comprehension using the auditory moving window technique
The Problem of Comprehension in Psycholinguistics
Most research in psycholinguistics relies on online measures such as reading time to inform and test theories of language comprehension. However, the value of offline measures such as question-answering performance is sometimes overlooked in sentence processing work. Consequently, psycholinguists do not yet understand how the tasks and measures used in online experiments might reflect the content of the representations that are formed by the subj…
Processing of It and This in Written Narrative Discourse
Two experiments explored the hypothesis that anaphors and demonstratives signal different procedural instructions: Whereas the anaphor it brings a concrete entity into a reader's focus, the demonstrative this directs the focus to a predicate proposition in a discourse representation. The findings from an online eye-tracking reading experiment confirm that preferences for it and this differ as predicted. Moreover, a sentence-completion experiment …
Processing Coordination Ambiguity
We examined temporarily ambiguous coordination structures such as put the butter in the bowl and the pan on the towel. Minimal Attachment predicts that the ambiguous noun phrase the pan will be interpreted as a noun-phrase coordination structure because it is syntactically simpler than clausal coordination. Constraint-based theories assume that interpretations are the result of a constraint-satisfaction process, which predicts that frequency or c…
Deixis
The existing literature presents conflicting models of how this and that access different segments of a written discourse, frequently relying on implicit analogies with spoken discourse. On the basis of this literature, we hypothesized that in written discourse, this more readily accesses the adjacent/right frontier of a preceding chunk of text, whereas that more readily accesses the distant/left. We tested this hypothesis in two eye-tracking exp…
In defense of the passive voice
Writers of scientific articles are familiar with the advice to avoid using the passive voice. Prescriptivists argue that the passive leads to bloated, indirect, and even evasive writing, and they recommend that the active form be used instead. This article defends the passive voice against these charges and argues that this advice is misguided. The article begins with a summary of the passive construction and the diversity of its forms, many of w…
That's Not How My Grandmother Says It
This paper discusses language-learning experiences of Portuguese-language learners from different ethnic backgrounds (Azores, Madeira, Cape Verde), enrolled in intermediate Portuguese at a southeastern Massa chusetts state college. Sociolinguistic and affective outcomes of the course are analyzed, revealing similarities to other heritage-language learners' experiences. The study espouses a qualitative approach to pedagogical analysis, employing a…
Age Preservation of the Syntactic Processor in Production
Verb frame preferences
The independence of syntactic processing
Effects of length and syntactic complexity on initiation times for prepared utterances
Creation of prosody during sentence production.
Phrase-final words tend to be lengthened and followed by a pause. The dominant view of prosodic production is that word lengthening and pausing reflect the syntax of a sentence. The author demonstrates that, instead, lengthening and pausing reflect a distinctly prosodic representation, in which phonological constituents are arranged in a hierarchical, nonrecursive structure. Prosodic structure is created without knowledge of words' phonemic conte…
Choice of Passive Voice is Affected by Verb Type and Animacy
Children's metalinguistic knowledge of syntactic constituents
This study used the school cutoff methodology to examine the development of chiIdren's metalinguistic knowledge of the syntactic subject of a sentence. Two groups of children matched in age and background variables but differing in amount of schooling were tested at ages 5, 6, and 7. The children's task was to listen to a sentence and repeat either the subject or the subject and verb. The subject was a pronoun, a proper name, a 2-word sequence, o…
Exploring the use of prosody during language comprehension using the auditory moving window technique
Reading and Language Processing
Thematic Roles Assigned along the Garden Path Linger
Misinterpretations of Garden-Path Sentences
Good-Enough Representations in Language Comprehension
People comprehend utterances rapidly and without conscious effort. Traditional theories assume that sentence processing is algorithmic and that meaning is derived compositionally. The language processor is believed to generate representations of the linguistic input that are complete, detailed, and accurate. However, recent findings challenge these assumptions. Investigations of the misinterpretation of both garden-path and passive sentences have…
The misinterpretation of noncanonical sentences
Age Preservation of the Syntactic Processor in Production
The Interface of Language, Vision, and Action
F. Ferreira, J.M. Henderson, Introduction to the Integration of Language, Vision and Action. J.M. Henderson, F. Ferreira, Scene Perception for Psycholinguists. K. Rayner, S.P. Liversedge, Visual and Linguistic Processing During Eye Fixations in Reading. D.E. Irwin, Fixation Location Duration as Indices of Cognitive Processing. J.M. Findlay, Eye Scanning and Visual Search. M.J. Spivey, D.C. Richardson, S.A. Fitneva, Thinking Outside the Brain: Spa…
Psycholinguistics, formal grammars, and cognitive science
In the 1980s, Charles Clifton referred to a "psycholinguistic renaissance" in cognitive science. During that time, there was almost unanimous agreement that any self-respecting psycholinguist would make sure to keep abreast of major developments in generative grammar, because a competence model was essential, and the linguistic theory was the proper description of that competence. But today, many psycholinguists are disenchanted with generative g…
That's Not How My Grandmother Says It
This paper discusses language-learning experiences of Portuguese-language learners from different ethnic backgrounds (Azores, Madeira, Cape Verde), enrolled in intermediate Portuguese at a southeastern Massa chusetts state college. Sociolinguistic and affective outcomes of the course are analyzed, revealing similarities to other heritage-language learners' experiences. The study espouses a qualitative approach to pedagogical analysis, employing a…
Younger and Older Adults' "Good-Enough" Interpretations of Garden-Path Sentences
We report 3 experiments that examined younger and older adults' reliance on "good-enough" interpretations for garden-path sentences (e.g., "While Anna dressed the baby played in the crib") as indicated by their responding "Yes" to questions probing the initial, syntactically unlicensed interpretation (e.g., "Did Anna dress the baby?"). The manipulation of several factors expected to influence the probability of generating or maintaining the unlic…
The 'Good Enough' Approach to Language Comprehension
Ferreira and colleagues argued that the language comprehension system creates syntactic and semantic representations that are merely 'good enough' (GE) given the task that the comprehender needs to perform. GE representations contrast with ones that are detailed, complete, and accurate with respect to the input. In this article, we review the original argument for GE processing, and we present new evidence that supports the concept: first, local …
Processing Coordination Ambiguity
We examined temporarily ambiguous coordination structures such as put the butter in the bowl and the pan on the towel. Minimal Attachment predicts that the ambiguous noun phrase the pan will be interpreted as a noun-phrase coordination structure because it is syntactically simpler than clausal coordination. Constraint-based theories assume that interpretations are the result of a constraint-satisfaction process, which predicts that frequency or c…
Retrato do Brasil em Cordel (review)
Reviewed by: Retrato do Brasil em Cordel Fernanda Ferreira Curran, Mark. Retrato do Brasil em Cordel. Cotia, SP: Ateliê, 2011. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-85-7480-538-2. Mark Curran’s Retrato do Brasil em Cordel attempts to give the reader a “snapshot” of Brazilian culture and society through the lens of Literatura de Cordel, a literary art form of printed booklets, often sold in street markets in Northeast Brazil. The stories are written in simple verses,…
Deixis
The existing literature presents conflicting models of how this and that access different segments of a written discourse, frequently relying on implicit analogies with spoken discourse. On the basis of this literature, we hypothesized that in written discourse, this more readily accesses the adjacent/right frontier of a preceding chunk of text, whereas that more readily accesses the distant/left. We tested this hypothesis in two eye-tracking exp…
Portuguese language programs in New England
The present study outlines the current Portuguese language offerings in select New England universities and colleges vis-à-vis a call for more specialized heritage learner programs in Portuguese. Building on and garnering theoretical support from more established heritage language programs in Spanish, this study details the learner profiles and goals of existing programs in local educational institutions. The goal is to delineate the gaps and opp…
Keith Rayner (1943–2015)
Keith Rayner, holder of the Atkinson Chair in Psychology at the University of California, San Diego, passed away on January 21, 2015, from complications due to cancer. Keith was born on June 20, 1943, in Dover, England. Keith was the major figure in the study of cognitive processes in reading, defining its approaches, techniques, and questions over four decades. Keith's main line of research involved the use of eye-movement measurement to probe t…
Processing of It and This in Written Narrative Discourse
Two experiments explored the hypothesis that anaphors and demonstratives signal different procedural instructions: Whereas the anaphor it brings a concrete entity into a reader's focus, the demonstrative this directs the focus to a predicate proposition in a discourse representation. The findings from an online eye-tracking reading experiment confirm that preferences for it and this differ as predicted. Moreover, a sentence-completion experiment …
Português como língua de herança em Londres
Reviewed by: Português como língua de herança em Londres: Recortes em casa, na igreja e na escola ed. by Ana Souza Fernanda Ferreira Souza, Ana, org. Português como língua de herança em Londres: Recortes em casa, na igreja e na escola. Campinas: Pontes. Pp. 150. ISBN 978-8-57113-689-2. O título deste livro, além do próprio sumário, aponta para uma abordagem extensiva da questão do português como língua de herança em comunidades brasileiras no Rei…
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