Dr. Teixeira is the founding director of the Laboratory of Cognitive Sciences and Psycholinguistics at the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil. She is also a Master's and PhD advisor at the Graduate Program in Linguistics at the Federal University of Ceará, where she has been an adjunct professor at the Department of Vernacular Letters since 2017. Dr. Teixeira has a degree in Letters from the Federal University of Ceará (2000), a Master's Degree in Language Studies from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2003) and a PhD in Linguistics from the Federal University of Ceará (2013). In 2008, she did an internship in France, at the Department of Cognitive Studies at the École Normale Supérieure de Paris and at the Laboratoire de Neuropsychologie Interventionnelle, at the University Paris-Est Créteil. She has experience in the field of Psycholinguistics and Experimental Psychology, working mainly on the following topics: eye movement, anaphoric processing and reading.

Abstract:
In this talk, Dr. Elisangela Teixeira will present an overview of psycholinguistic studies that have investigated the processing and acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese linguistic structures. First of all, she will briefly introduce the audience to the field of psycholinguistics and the experimental methods most commonly used in the field today. Then, Dr. Teixeira will present and discuss works that have investigated aspects such as the acquisition of gender, number, verbal affixes, and relative clauses and, in the field of language processing, papers that deal with coreference processing, agreement, and relative clauses. All discussions are based on experimental research papers with stimuli materials in Brazilian Portuguese. To conclude, Dr. Teixeira will present recent results from a Brazilian Portuguese eye tracking corpus of natural reading that examined different parameters of reading function words.

Keywords: psycholinguistics, language acquisition, language processing, function words, eye movements, Brazilian Portuguese