Utilização da imagem por ressonância magnética nos estudos sobre a produção da fala by Sandra M. Rua Ventura... [et al.]

“…Presenting this imaging technique and demonstrating its use and contribution for speech production study, in particular for the European Portuguese Language, is the main goal of this work. Through the collection and analysis of images it was possible to obtain and build three-dimensional models of the vocal tract in various articulatory positions. …”
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Nasalance and nasality of tracheoesophageal speech in total laryngectomee by Adriana Pereira Defina Iqueda, Hilton Ricz, Telma Kioko Takeshita, Nathalia dos Reis, Lilian Aguiar-Ricz

“…RESULTS: The nasalance values obtained for nasal (59.92%) and oral (18.64%) sentences were within the normal limits for laryngeal speakers of Brazilian Portuguese language. It was possible to observe the presence of nasality in nasal sentences and its absence in oral sentences among most speakers. …”
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PORTUGUESE AS HERITAGE LANGUAGE AND PORTUGUESE NON NATIVE LANGUAGE by Idalina Camacho, Naidea Nunes

“…Data were collected on their motivation for attending the course, their expectations of the course and their learning of the Portuguese language (LP), their views of Madeira and its culture, before and after the course, as well as difficulties, both in language and social integration. …”
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Modernism in secondary school didactic books: the fundamental themes and texts and the education of the schooled reader by Maria Amélia Dalvi

“…Finally, it organizes data on the themes and sub themes related to Brazilian modernism presented in four contemporary didactic books used in Portuguese language and literature classes for secondary level students, published by leading editorial groups. …”
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Relativização de predicados nominais na História do português by Adriana Cardoso

“…The central goal of this paper is to describe and analyse the syntactic and semantic properties of these constructions, whose existence has not been mentioned in the Historical Portuguese Grammars nor in the reference works on the History of Portuguese Language. The claim is that these relative clauses have a gap in a postcopular position (predicate of the copular sentence) and that this striking particularity contributes to the specific semantic properties that they exhibit. …”
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Analysis of spelling errors from the ‘dyslexic sight words’ list by Luciana Cidrim, Andrea Oliveira Batista, Francisco Madeiro, Simone Aparecida Capellini

“…This classification provides an understanding of the characteristics of Natural Spelling and Arbitrary Spelling, providing support for the teaching-learning of words by dyslexic students and is also relevant for the design of Portuguese language teacher training policies. In the teaching of the orthographic norm, the success and error when writing words should be followed by a reflection (metaorthographic skill) and monitoring of learning, both on the part of the teacher and on the part of the learner, reinforcing the knowledge of spelling patterns that will be triggered as the student is exposed to the explicit formal teaching of spelling.…”
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Variant patterns of Subject-Verb agreement in Portuguese: morphological and phonological issues by Maria Antónia Mota

“…In this paper, we start from a basic assumption: agreement is a most relevant operation for the Portuguese language speakers as a whole. The data from different varieties of Portuguese support this view, both in the Subject-Verb domain and within the NP, as well as the fact that speakers don’t prefer the simplest solutions: the most productive plural agreement forms are the most complex ones, morphologically and phonologically. …”
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NINETEENTH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPTS OF THE CASTRO-PR: THE CASE OF RAISING by Dayme Rosane BENÇAL, Fabiane Cristina ALTINO

“…As this kind of oscillation, called raising, is not a recent process in the Portuguese language, we seek for evidences of Labov uniformitarianism when describing the cases found in XIX century formal documents in comparison to the data of orality, made available by Bisol (1981) Viegas (1987, 2001) Bortoni et. al (1992), Kailer (2008). …”
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The use of Facebook in the health promotion: a literature review about empowerment and popular participation by Fernanda Santana Miranda, Dais Gonçalves Rocha

“…The results show that the subject in the Portuguese language is incipient and how this social media can contribute to the strengthening of popular participation in the public management and to the empowerment of individuals and communities.…”
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Translation and adaptation of a questionnaire on the needs of postpartum adolescents by Paula Sarreira-de-Oliveira, Manuela Néné

“…ABSTRACT Objective: Describe the processes of translation to the Portuguese language and cultural adaptation of the Postpartum Learning Needs (PLN) to the Portuguese context. …”
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Characteristics of teaching practices in Rural Education: analysis of actions related to teacher training and experience report of pedagogical methodologies proposals for the teach... by Renan Mota Silva

“…In conclusion, there is an understanding that other curricular components, such as Portuguese language, mathematics and others, have been neglected, either because of their understanding of their lesser relevance in relation to the subjects or contents mentioned, or because researchers are not producing research in this context.…”
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Terminologia brasileira em ciência da informação: uma análise by Marisa Bräscher Basílio Medeiros

“…Identifies,from terms collected in the journal Ciência da Informação and the Catálogo de Teses e Dissertações em Ciência da Informação e Biblioteconomia, some terminological problems,such as ambiguity, polysemy, use of foreign words or expressions and neologisms, that do not take into account the Portuguese language structure or its syntactic and morphological aspects, The need of terminological studies for the establishment of a true Brazilian terminology in Information Scienceis emphasized…”
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Approximations between the functioning of the Didactic Sequence Methodology and the concept of Zone of Proximal Development by Eliana Merlin Deganutti Barros

“…</p><p>Key words: Portuguese language learning, didactic sequence, zone of proximal development.…”
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Evaluation of the Family Impact Scale for use in Brazil by Taís de Souza Barbosa, Maria Beatriz Duarte Gavião

“…OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this study were to assess the validity and reliability of the Family Impact Scale (FIS) applied in Brazilian parents after translations and cultural adaptations to Brazilian Portuguese language and to evaluate the nature and extent to which the family functioning is compromised by the child oral conditions. …”
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Cultural Challenges of the Portuguese Adaptation of an IPIP English-Based Personality Inventory by Andrea Ritter, Hugo Esteves, Aristides Ferreira

“…The findings validated 16 work-related personality scales under a three-factor structure, suggesting a new theoretical model for work-related personality traits in the Portuguese language and professional context. This research underscores the importance of exploring personality in the workplace, particularly within the Portuguese context with its distinct cultural nuances.…”
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Sociointeracionismo: pressupostos teóricos para o embasamento de práticas escolares em leitura e escrita by Marco Aurélio Cosmo Machado, Maria Luzimar Fernandes dos Santos

“…This article has as main objective to present the theoretical assumptions of the sociointeractive conception of language and its implications in the teaching of Portuguese Language (PL) as a mother language. In the light of Marcuschi (2008), Antunes (2010) and Koch (2011), there will be exposed the main characteristics of this language view through comparisons with other conceptions and reflections about the main objective of language use. …”
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Imaginary poets in a real world (an unpublished lecture, 1996) by Monteiro, George

“…As one critic, who is himself fluent in the English language and conversant with England's literary traditions, has put it, "[Pessoa] even 'reinvented' the Portuguese language, because he knew English."…”
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The presence of technology in Rural Education: mapping of national scientific production of the last five years by Vagner Viera de Souza, Elaine Corrêa Pereira, Celiane Costa Machado

“…In order to visualize the current national scenario in relation to the publications related to technology in the rural schools, we search for Portuguese-language works with the following keywords: Technology in Education, Rural Education and Rural Education Technology. …”
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A filiação dos pronomes pessoais do crioulo da ilha de Santiago (Cabo Verde) by Jürgen Lang

“…To develop this reconstruction, the study considers descriptions of the Portuguese language (Cardeira 2005, Cintra 1986, Maia 1986, Riiho 1994, Silva 2008, Teyssier 1984), the first description of personal pronouns in the Creole of Santiago (Brito 1887), the personal pronoun system of the Creole from the neighbouring island of Fogo, and the personal pronoun systems of modern Wolof, Bambara, and Mandinka. …”
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Preliminary stages of cross-cultural adaptation of the Brazilian Portuguese version of McMaster Family Assessment Device by Eliane Traebert, Karoliny dos Santos, Luciana Müller Carvalho, Jane da Silva, Jefferson Traebert

“…ABSTRACT Objective To carry out the preliminary stages of the cross-cultural adaptation of the Family Assessment Device (FAD) to Brazilian Portuguese language and examine its reliability. Methods The translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the FAD were developed according to the methods internationally recommended. …”
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