Research
Ongoing projects, projects under review, and proposals in development are explicitly distinguished.
A collaborative project focused on developing, evaluating, and disseminating speech synthesis technologies capable of naturally and intelligibly representing the linguistic diversity of Portuguese. Undergraduate students Quézia Ester Ferreira Barros and Aleksandro da Silva Aureliano take part in the project.
Investigates the role of acoustic and visual prosody in discourse-structure processing, through experimental perception studies that combine behavioral tests and online electrophysiological-response techniques for multimodal stimuli. Undergraduate students Cinthya Gabrielly de Melo Silva, Helen Moraes, Mariana Costa Galdino, and Hevillyn Luiza da Silva Santos take part in the project.
A Computer Science research project bridging Image Processing and Natural Language Processing, through the analysis, modeling, and computational treatment of image and language data. Undergraduate students Guilherme da Silva Oliveira, Marianne Florentino Bezerra, Letícia Lília da Silva Barbosa, and Nicole Biatriz de Oliveira Santos take part in the project.
A project hosted by the Latin American Linguistics and Philology Association (ALFAL) to promote interdisciplinary debate on prosody, bridging speech studies across letters, linguistics, speech-language pathology, music, electrical engineering, and signal processing.
Investigated the role of prosody in discourse-structure processing in Portuguese and Libras, combining behavioral tests with online eye-tracking and electroencephalography techniques.
Continued the digitization of the NURC Project corpus, expanding the archive available on the NURC Digital Portal to include all data from the NURC Recife Project, duly annotated and tagged.
Investigated, through electroencephalography and the event-related potential measure known as Closure Positive Shift, the simultaneous processing of prosody and spontaneous discourse structure in Portuguese and English.
Investigated the role of prosody in discourse-structure processing in Portuguese through behavioral tests combined with neuroimaging techniques: electroencephalography (EEG) and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS).
Trained a group of Fulni-ô teachers to collect, transcribe, and translate traditional narratives in Yaathe with elderly speakers, resulting in an electronic book with 20 narratives and an annotated corpus incorporated into The Language Archive.