Word order alternation has been described as one of the most productive information structure markers and discourse organizers across languages. Psycholinguistic evidence has shown that word order is a crucial cue for ...

The influence of aging on memory has been extensively studied, but the importance of short-term memory and recall sequence has not. The objective of the current study was to examine the recall order of words presented on ...

Purpose: To develop a database of words of high, medium and low frequency in reading for Basic Education II. Methods: The words were taken from the teaching material for Portuguese Language, used by the teaching network ...

Linking is the theory that captures the mapping of the semantic roles of lexical arguments to the syntactic functions of the phrases that realize them. At the sentence level, linking allows us to understand “who did what ...

The concept of art is a lens through which one can explore the thought of Nicholas of Cusa. He uses this notion throughout his work in order to address the productive dynamism of the divine mind as well as the human mind. ...

This study investigates the use of mesmo in Brazilian Portuguese, taking as theoretical support Functional Discourse Grammar, developed by Hengeveld and Mackenzie (2008). The proposal consists of investigating the ...

From the fifteenth century, the number of pastoral works written in Portuguese increased, in order to enable the faithful - not only those from the court of the kings of Portugal, but also ordinary men and women - to be ...

A produção da escrita ocorre a partir da interação entre os processos centrais (processos cognitivo-linguísticos) e os processos periféricos (ato motor da escrita), os quais podem ser afetados pelas regras de codificação ...

Free-word association has been used as a vehicle to understand the organization of human thoughts. The original studies relied mainly on qualitative assertions, yielding the widely intuitive notion that trajectories ...