1st Edition
The Acquisition of Portuguese as a Second Language A Research Overview
Introduction 1. Research on the acquisition of Portuguese as a second language: Theoretical approaches 2. Research on the acquisition of Portuguese as a second language: Methodological approaches 3. Acquisition of Portuguese in a context of multilingualism: L3 learners and heritage speakers 4. Phonetics and phonology 5. Syntax and morphosyntax 6. Semantics 7. Interface phenomena 8. Conclusion 9. Appendix: Listing of L2 Portuguese corpora 10. References
Biography
Aida Cardoso is an Invited Adjunct Professor at the Lisbon School of Education (ESELx), Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, and a Lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH), NOVA University Lisbon. She is a collaborating researcher at the Linguistics Research Centre of NOVA University Lisbon (CLUNL). She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Her research interests include Second Language Acquisition, Syntax, and Corpus Linguistics.
Anabela Rato is an Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada. She holds a Ph.D. in Language Sciences from the University of Minho, Portugal. Her research focuses on Second Language and Heritage Language Speech Acquisition and Experimental Phonetics.
"This innovative volume provides a thorough overview of the research on L2 Portuguese to date. [It presents] a clear overview of the field of L2 Acquisition, with a focus on Portuguese as the target language. This is undoubtedly a must-have to all researchers in the L2 Acquisition field, whether they focus on Portuguese as a target language or not."
Ubiratã Kickhöfel Alves, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
