OBJECTIVE To translate The Manchester Respiratory Activities of Daily Living (MRADL) questionnaire into Portuguese and to create a version of the MRADL that is cross-culturally adapted for use in Brazil. METHODS The English-language version of the MRADL was translated into Portuguese by two health care researchers who were fluent in English. A consensus version was obtained by other two resea...

PURPOSE To characterize the performance of Brazilian students exposed to two languages in reading fluency, phonological memory, and rapid naming, according to grade level, and to investigate correlations between these variables. METHODS Sixty students took part in this study (50% female), enrolled in the third to the fifth grades of two elementary schools of the city of São Paulo. They consti...

Textbooks are a resource that is widely used in language classes. For this reason, they also one of the principal topics research on field didactics. Several studies were conducted about Portuguese as mother tongue textbooks, but there lack researches and information concerning textbooks foreign language. In study, researcher analyses discourse authors/editors ‘opening texts’ for (European) lan...

In this paper, we describe and evaluate different general stemming approaches for the French, Portuguese (Brazilian), German and Hungarian languages. Based on the CLEF test-collections, we demonstrate that light stemming approaches are quite effective for the French, Portuguese and Hungarian languages, and perform reasonably well for the German language. Variations in mean average precision amo...

In this paper, we approach the phenomenon of insubordination in spoken Brazilian Portuguese through data on adverbial clauses extracted from the C-ORAL-BRASIL corpus [Raso and Mello 2012]. Differently from the traditional conception of insubordination [Evans 2007], we propose a synchronic view, strongly based on the analysis of the prosody/pragmatics interface in spoken language. We show that i...