Letícia M. Sicuro Corrêa
List of John Benjamins publications for which Letícia M. Sicuro Corrêa plays a role.
2024 Chapter 9. Quantifier comprehension in Brazilian Portuguese and the extra-object visual effect Language Acquisition in Romance Languages, Torrens, Vicenç (ed.), pp. 212–229 | Chapter
Universal quantifiers are complex for children to comprehend, and over-exhaustive errors can occur even with adults in sentence-picture verification tasks. This paper addresses visual design factors that may explain these difficulties. We examine what we call the “single extra object attraction… read more
2021 Chapter 5. The production of variable number agreement in Brazilian Portuguese: A procedural and developmental account L1 Acquisition and L2 Learning: The view from Romance, Avram, Larisa, Anca Sevcenco and Veronica Tomescu (eds.), pp. 109–132 | Chapter
This chapter focuses on the production of variable number agreement by Brazilian Portuguese (BP) speaking children/adolescents. Number agreement in BP can be redundant, with obligatory morphological plural marking in all the agreeing elements (standard variety), or non-redundant, with obligatory… read more
2021 Chapter 3. Cost-reducing strategies in the production of Brazilian Portuguese relative clauses: Language impairment in the syntactic domain L1 Acquisition and L2 Learning: The view from Romance, Avram, Larisa, Anca Sevcenco and Veronica Tomescu (eds.), pp. 67–82 | Chapter
This paper investigates the production of relative clauses (RCs) by Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children/adolescents, focusing on cost-reducing RCs strategies that may circumvent syntactic language impairment. Different types of RCs are elicited from participants at risk of language impairment… read more
2018 Favorable processing conditions in the production of passive sentences by Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children On the Acquisition of the Syntax of Romance, Gavarró, Anna (ed.), pp. 91–116 | Chapter
This study focuses on the production of passives by children (3–4 and 5–6 years old) under favorable conditions. An experiment is reported in which passives were elicited by priming in a Snap Game, where a central character was the patient of the events depicted in the cards to be described by the… read more
2018 Discrimination of passive predicates by Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children On the Acquisition of the Syntax of Romance, Gavarró, Anna (ed.), pp. 31–56 | Chapter
This paper investigates the discrimination of passive predicates by children acquiring Brazilian Portuguese. A truth-value judgment experiment is reported here which assesses 3–4- and 5–6-year-olds’ ability to discriminate eventive/stative and eventive/resultative predicates. The results show an… read more