Publications

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Edited Volumes

Luiz Amaral, Marcus Maia, Andrew Nevins & Tom Roeper (2018). Recursion Across Domains. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK.
Thaís M. Sá, Ricardo Souza & Luiz Amaral (2020). Procedimentos e Métodos para a Avaliação de Falantes do Português como Língua Adicional. Revista da ABRALIN, vol.19, n. 3. Brazil.

Papers and Book Chapters

Luiz Amaral and Andrea Faber (forthcoming). What can nonce words tell us about the acquisition of nominal gender agreement in SLA? In Hispanic Studies Review.
Luiz Amaral and Liliana Sánchez (2023). Carefully considering the need, precision, and usefulness of classifying bilingual speakers in language shift contexts. In Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. 18799264, 2023, Vol. 13, Issue 1.
Luiz Amaral, Gabriela Pérez Báez and Jorge Emilio Josés Labrada (2022). Living Languages - Lenguas Vivas - Línguas Vivas: Joining efforts towards language revitalization. In Living Languages - Lenguas Vivas - Línguas Vivas, v.1, n.1, p. 1-10.
Luiz Amaral, Raquel Fellet Lawall, Graziele Frangiotti, Paula Garcia de Freitas e Ricardo Augusto de Souza (2022). Aprendizagem de línguas baseada em evidências experimentais: Possíveis interfaces entre a psicolinguística e o ensino/aprendizagem de línguas adicionais. Em Martins Leitão, Márcio e Marcus Maia (org.). Dimensões da Psicolinguística na ALFAL. Coleção ALFAL: Além das Fronteiras. pp. 13-35. ALFAL: Brasil.
Luiz Amaral (2021). How can linguists support language revitalization efforts in the Brazilian context? In Linguistica, v.17, n.2, pp 177-193.
Andrea Faber, Luiz Amaral and Marcus Maia (2021). Pronominal feature re-assembly: L1 and L2 pronoun resolution of Spanish epicene and common gender antecedents. In Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, v. 14, n. 2, p. 281-320.
Thaís M. Sá, Ricardo de Souza, Alexandre Santos and Luiz Amaral (2021). Um teste de verificação lexical do português brasileiro (TVLPB) como língua adicional: Criação e validação. In Caligrama: Revista de Estudos Românicos, v. 26, n. 2, p. 125-153.
Luiz Amaral (2020b). A Framework for Designing Pedagogical Materials in Indigenous Languages: Examples from Brazil and Mexico. In Tellus, n.43, p. 145-166.
Luiz Amaral (2020a). Estratégias para revitalização de línguas ameaçadas e a realidade brasileira. In Cadernos de Linguística, v. 1, n. 3, p. 01-44.
Ricardo de Souza, Thaís M. Sá and Luiz Amaral (2020). Movendo a avaliação do português como L2 para além do mal-estar. In Revista da Abralin, v. 19, n. 3, p 763-774.
Luiz Amaral (2018). Describing Wapichana asymetric negation. In Hollebrandse, Bart, Jaieum Kim, Ana Pérez-Letroux and Petra Schulz eds. Thoughts on Mind and Grammar: A festschrift in honor of Tom Roeper (UMOP 41). Amherst-MA.
Luiz Amaral & Wendy Leandro (2018). Relative clauses in Wapichana and the interpretation of multiple-embedded "uraz" constructions. In Luiz Amaral, Marcus Maia, Andrew Nevins & Tom Roeper. Recursion Across Domains. pp. 230-242. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK.
Luiz Amaral (2018). Teoria da Testagem, experimentos psicolinguísticos e a avaliação das habilidades de leitura e escrita. In Marcus Maia. Psicolinguística e Educação. pp. 57-79. Mercado das Letras. São Paulo, Brazil.
Filomena Sandalo, Cilene Rodrigues, Tom Roeper, Luiz Amaral, Marcus Maia and Glauber Romling da Silva (2018). Self-embedded recursive pospositional phrases in Pirahã: A pilot study. In Luiz Amaral, Marcus Maia, Andrew Nevins & Tom Roeper (2018). Recursion Across Domains. pp. 279-285. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK.
Luiz Amaral, Ana Maria Gomes, Joana Autuori & Moreno Saraiva Martins (2017). Diálogos entre a linguística, a educação e a antropologia na produção de materiais de alfabetização na língua sanöma. Revista LinguíStica. Vol 13.1. pp. 104-125. Rio de Janeiro: UFRJ.
Luiz Amaral (2015). Sintaxe Lexical. In: Ávila Othero, G. and Kenedy, E. Eds. Sintaxe, Sintaxes. pp. 103-122 São Paulo: Contexto.
Luiz Amaral and Tom Roeper (2014). Multiple grammars and second language representation. In Second Language Research. Vol 30 (1), pp 3-36. SAGE.
Luiz Amaral and Tom Roeper (2014). Why minimal multiple rules provide a unique window into UG and L2. In Second Language Research. Vol 30 (1), pp 97-107. SAGE.
Wendy Leandro and Luiz Amaral (2014). The interpretation of multiple embedded genitive constructions by Wapichana and English speakers. In: LinguiStica. Vol 10(2), pp 149--162. Rio de Janeiro: UFRJ.
Cristiane Silva, Luiz Amaral and Marcus Maia (2014). Palavras -BO em Karajá: Como transmutar análises linguísticas formais em material pedagógico. In: Cadernos de Educação Escolar Indígena. Vol 11 (1), pp 69--85. Barra do Bugres-MT: UNEMAT.
Barbara Pearson and Luiz Amaral (2014). Interactions between input factors in bilingual language acquisition: Considerations for minority language maintenance. In: Paradis, J. and Gruter, T. Input and Experience in Bilingual Development. pp.99-117. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Raquel Lawall, Marcus Maia and Luiz Amaral (2012). Resolução pronominal com antecedentes sobrecomuns e comuns de dois gêneros em português brasileiro como língua materna, língua de herança e como segunda língua. In Revista Linguística. Vol 8(2), pp 134-158. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Luiz Amaral (2011). Bilinguismo, aquisição, letramento e o ensino de múltiplas línguas em escolas indígenas no Brasil. In Cadernos de Educação Escolar Indígena. Vol.9 (1), pp. 13-32. Cárceres, MT: Editora UNEMAT.
Luiz Amaral and Detmar Meurers (2011). On using intelligent computer-assisted language learning in real-life foreign language teaching and learning. In ReCALL. Vol 23 (1), pp. 4-24. Cambridge University Press.
Luiz Amaral, Detmar Meurers and Ramon Ziai (2011). Analyzing learner language: Towards a flexible NLP architecture for intelligent language tutor. In Computer Assisted Language Learning. Vol 1, pp. 1-16. Routledge.
Luiz Amaral (2011). Revisiting current paradigms in computer assisted language learning Research and Development. In Ilha do Desterro. Vol. 60, pp. 365-389. UFSC - Brazil.
Detmar Meurers, Ramon Ziai, Luiz Amaral, Adriane Boyd, Aleksandar Dimitrov, Vanessa Metcalf, Niels Ott (2010). Enhancing authentic web pages for language learner. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, NAACL-HLT 2010, Los Angeles.
Luiz Amaral and Detmar Meurers (2009). Little things with big effects: On the identification and interpretation of tokens for error diagnosis in ICALL. In CALICO Journal. 27 (1), pp. 580 - 591.
Luiz Amaral and Detmar Meurers (2008). From recording linguistic competence to supporting inferences about language acquisition in context. In Computer Assisted Language Learning. 21 (5), pp. 323-338. Routledge.
Luiz Amaral and Detmar Meurers (2007). Conceptualizing student models for ICALL. In Cristina Conati and Kathleen F. McCoy (Eds.): User Modeling 2007: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Wien, New York, Berlin: Springer.
Anna Feldman, Jirka Hana, Luiz Amaral, and Chris Brew (2006). Tagging Portuguese with a Spanish tagger. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Cross-Language Knowledge Induction at the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL). Trento, Italy.
Luiz Amaral (2005). Desafiando a localidade. In Palavra Journal, n.12, p 119 - 132. PUC-Rio. Brazil.
Luiz Amaral (2004). A Forma do objeto direto anafórico em português - Uma análise motivada pela topicalidade. In Cadernos do Congresso Nacional de Linguística e Filologia, Vol. VIII, n.14, p 9 - 22. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Luiz Amaral (2003). Um modelo de restrições semântico-selecionais para sistemas de processamento de linguagem natural. In Veredas Journal, v.9, p 31 - 45. Juiz de Fora - MG. Brazil.
Claudia Oliveira, Luiz Amaral, and Milena Garrão (2003). Recognizing complex prepositions Prep+N+Prep as negative patterns in automatic term extraction from texts. In Proceedings of 1st Workshop em Tecnologia da Informação e da Linguagem Humana (TIL2003). São Carlos - SP. Brazil

Keynote and Invited Talks

Luiz Amaral (2023). Theories and Practices in Curriculum Design for Language Departments. (Invited) University of Toronto. Toronto - Canada. May 5.
Luiz Amaral (2022). Materiais de Ensino de L2 em Contextos de Revitalização Linguística. (Keynote) Viva Língua Viva. Belém-PA, Brazil. November 22 – 25.
Luiz Amaral (2022). Pesquisa em Aquisição da Linguagem com Falantes Bilíngues. (Invited) Laboratório de Psicolinguística - UFRJ. Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil. Oct 21
Luiz Amaral (2021). How to take full advantage of the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis in SLA? Pay attention to how you describe features. (Invited) The Ohio State University. Oct 22.
Luiz Amaral (2021). O Papel de uma Teoria Representacional na Pesquisa sobre Aquisição de Múltiplas Línguas. (Invited) I Seminário Sobre Bilinguismo, Ensino e Aprendizagem de Língua Inglesa. Federal University Agreste de Pernambuco, Brazil (online). Apr 13 – 15.
Luiz Amaral (2020). Possíveis Parcerias entre a Revitalização Linguística e a Educação Escolar Indígena. (Keynote) II Encontro de Ensino de Língua em Contexto Indígena. Federal Univ. of Amapá, Brazil (online). Sep 29 – Oct 2.
Luiz Amaral (2020). Revitalização, Retomada e Manutenção de Línguas Ameaçadas. Invited talk at the Online Series of the Brazilian Linguistics Association. Jun 21.
Luiz Amaral (2020). A Feature-based Approach to Optionality and its Challenges to Multiple Grammars. LAPEX - UFRJ. Jun 22.
Luiz Amaral (2019). Experimental Work and Native Latin American Languages: A Paradigm Shift to Support a Collaborative Research Agenda. Keynote talk at ALFALITO, CUNY. Sep 21.
Luiz Amaral (2019). Uma Rede Latino-Americana de Apoio a Práticas de Ensino e Aprendizagem em Línguas Indígenas. Keynote talk at Viva Língua Víva. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Nov 13.
Luiz Amaral (2019). Elaboração de Materiais Didáticos para Comunidades Indígenas. Keynote talk at GELSIA-SIPLI. Belém, Brazil. Nov 20.
Luiz Amaral (2018). La Literacidad y Las Lenguas Indígenas: Metodologías y Prácticas. Primer Congreso Internacional de Fomento a la Lectura en Lenguas Indígenas. Oaxaca, Mexico. June 14-16.
Luiz Amaral (2017). Las Necesidades de los Programas de Enseñanza en Lengua Indígena y el Apoyo de los Proyectos de Documentación y Descripción. Eighth Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America (Keynote). University of Texas Austin. October 26-28.
Luiz Amaral (2017). Materiales Didácticos para Proyectos de Revitalización Lingüística. At the Congreso Internacional de Estudios sobre Lenguas Indígenas. (Keynote) Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro. Mexico. November 15-17.
Luiz Amaral (2017). Experimentos psicolinguísticos e testagens acadêmicas: mapeando o conhecimento linguístico e as habilidades de leitura durante o processo de letramento. ABRALIN Conference. Niteroi-RJ, Brazil. Mar 27-30.
Luiz Amaral (2016). El modelo D.E.I. y el papel de la lingüística en proyectos de revitalización de lenguas indígenas. Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Mexico. Nov 28.
Luiz Amaral (2016). O material didático e o ensino de línguas indígenas. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil. Jan 11.
Luiz Amaral (2013). Gramáticas múltiplas e a representação linguística em aquisição de segunda língua. II Encontro Internacional de Psicolinguística da ANPOLL. João Pessoa-PB, Brazil. October 5.
Luiz Amaral (2013). Traços, Restrições e Representação Gramatical: uma introdução a Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Workshop at the II Encontro Internacional de Psicolinguística da ANPOLL. João Pessoa-PB, Brazil. October 1-2.
Amaral, Luiz (2012). Um Exemplo da Colaboração entre as Linguísticas Descritiva, Experimental e Aplicada na Preservação e na Educação em Línguas Indígenas. Universidade Federal de Roraima. Boa Vista, RR. May 21.
Luiz Amaral (2011). Panorama e Perspectivas do Ensino de Línguas Indígenas no Brasil. Primeiro Encontro sobre o Ensino de Línguas Indígenas em Roraima. Universidade Estadual de Roraima. Boa Vista, RR. November 30 - December 2.

Conference Presentations

Luiz Amaral, Candido Oliveira (2023). Categorization and Generalization in Second Language Acquisition: Evidence from resultative constructions in L2-English/L1-Portuguese. 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Dusseldorf – Germany. August 7 – 11.
Luiz Amaral, Ana Alonso and Wendy Leandro (2022). What Acquisition Research Tells us about the Status of a Minoritized Indigenous Language as a Heritage Language. Heritage Languages Around the World. University of Lisbon. May 18-20.
Alexandre Alves Santos, Thaís Machado Sá, Luiz Amaral and Ricardo Augusto de Souza (2022). Portuguese TVLPB: Measuring Vocabulary Breath of Heritage Speakers. Heritage Languages Around the World. University of Lisbon. May 18-20.
Luiz Amaral (2021). Preparing Pedagogical Materials for Reclamation and Revitalization Initiatives. Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting. Jan 7 – 10.
Luiz Amaral (2018). Using an Experimental Methodology to Assess Intergenerational Transmission Rates of Indigenous Languages in Latin America. 56th International Congress of Americanists. Salamanca, Spain. July 15-20.
Ana Alonso and Luiz Amaral (2017) . An assessment tool to support language revitalization efforts in educational contexts. North West Indian Language Institute. Eugene-OR. Jun 30 - Jul 2.
Luiz Amaral and Wendy Leandro (2016). The role of TAM morphology in Wapichana asymmetric negation. International Colloquium on Amazonian Languages – AMAZONICAS VI. Leticia, Colombia. May 24-28.
Luiz Amaral (2015). Las Gramáticas Pedagógicas de Proyecto de Documentación de Lenguas Indígenas en Brasil. In Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America (CILLA). University of Texas, Austin. Oct 29-31.
Luiz Amaral and Wendy Leandro (2015). The Acquisition of Recursive Genitives in Wapichana. In ABRALIN Conference. Belem-PA, Brazil. February 24-27.
Luiz Amaral and Emiliana Cruz (2014). Los Diferentes Usos de Gramáticas Pedagógica: ¿Qué son? ¿Cómo Construirlas? ¿Para qué sirven? In VI Coloquio sobre Lenguas Otomangues y Vecinas Mario Molina Cruz. Oaxaca, Mexico. April 23-26.
Luiz Amaral (2013). What can prepositional phrases in Portuguese teach us about indirect recursion? In Portuguese Linguistics in the United States. University of Georgia. Athens-GA. November 15-17.
Luiz Amaral and Wendy Leandro (2013). The acquisition of the relativizer "-uraz" in Wapichana. In Recursion in Brazilian Languages and Beyond. Rio de Janeiro-RJ. August 7-9.
Andrea Faber, Luiz Amaral and Marcus Maia (2012). Subject and object pronoun resolution with epicene and bigender antecedents: a study of native and L2 processing. II Workshop em Processamento Anafórico. Fortaleza, Brazil. May 5.
Scott Payne, Kelly Bilinsky, Luiz Amaral, Weijia Li and Aaron Coburn (2012). LangBot: A language reference agent for language learners. Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO 2012). University of Notre Dame. June 14.
Luiz Amaral (2011). Bilinguismo e Aquisição de Segunda Língua. Magistério Indígena da Escola Estadual Tapi'itãwa. Aldeia Tapirapé, MT. June 27 - July 2.
Luiz Amaral, Flavia Cunha and Glaucia Silva (2011). The acquisition of the semantic contrast in subordinate clauses by heritage speakers of portuguese. In the American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference (AAAL-11). Chicago, IL. March 26 - 29.
Luiz Amaral and Flavia Cunha (2011). Integrating ICALL in different instructional environments. In Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO 2011) University of Victoria. May 20 - 23.
Luiz Amaral (2010). New paradigms in generative second language acquisition research: An example of experimental methodologies shaping the theoretical debate. In Experimental Psycholinguistics: Formal Approaches. University of Campinas. December 1 - 3.
Luiz Amaral, and Meghann Peace (2010). New evidence on the acquisition of the OPC in Spanish, and what it means for a theory of SLA. In Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. Indiana University. October 15 - 17.
Luiz Amaral, Flavia Cunha, Detmar Meurers, and Ramon Ziai (2010). Developing and integrating ICALL systems. In Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO 2010). Amherst College. June 10 - 12.
Scott Payne, Luiz Amaral, Weijia Li, and Michael Lipschultz (2010). LangBot: An intelligent agent for language learning. In Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO 2010). Amherst College. June 10 - 12.
Luiz Amaral (2009). Automatic input processing for activities with target answers. In Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO 2009). Arizona State University. April 12 - 14.
Luiz Amaral and Detmar Meurers (2009). On the annotation and use of learner language corpora. Invited Colloquium on "Bridging Computational and Applied Linguistics: Implementation Challenges and Benefits" at the American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference (AAAL-09). Denver, Colorado. March 21 - 24, 2009.
Luiz Amaral and Detmar Meurers (2008). Tapping into the synergy between SLA, foreign language instruction and natural language processing in ICALL. In AILA: 15th World Congress of Applied Linguistics. Essen, Germany. August 25.
Luiz Amaral, and Detmar Meurers (2007). Putting activity models in the driver's seat: towards a demand-driven NLP architecture for ICALL. In European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL 2007). University of Ulster, Ireland. September 5 - 8.
Luiz Amaral, and Detmar Meurers (2007). Extending learner models for intelligent computer-assisted language learning beyond grammar. Conference on Technology for Second Language Learning. Iowa State University. Ames, Iowa. September 21 - 22.
Luiz Amaral (2007). Creating ICALL activities for task based instruction. In Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO 2007). Texas State University. May 22 - 26.
Luiz Amaral and Detmar Meurers (2007). Designing lerner models for intelligent language tutors. In Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO 2007). Texas State University. May 22 - 26.
Luiz Amaral, and Detmar Meurers (2006). Using a foreign language tutoring system for grammatical feedback. In European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL 2006). University of Granada, Spain. September 4 - 7.
Luiz Amaral, and Detmar Meurers (2006). Where does ICALL fit into foreign language teaching? In Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO 2006). University of Hawaii. May 16 - 20.
Luiz Amaral, Vanessa Metcalf, and Detmar Meurers (2006). Language awareness through re-use of NLP technology. In Workshop NLP in CALL at the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO 2006). University of Hawaii. May 16 - 20.
Gláucia Silva and Luiz Amaral (2006). Communicative abilities of learners of Portuguese in an individualized instruction program. In Eighth International Conference of the Brazilian Studies Association. Vanderbuilt University. October 13 - 16.
Gláucia Silva and Luiz Amaral (2005). Challenges for establishing a Portuguese individualized instruction program in the US. In South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Atlanta - GA. November 5.
Luiz Amaral (2005). The role of the personal infinitive in BP tough-constructions. In Niagara Linguistic Society at the University at Buffalo. Buffalo - NY. September 30, 2005.
Luiz Amaral (2005). When semantics changes syntax: the subcategorization of adjectives in Brazilian Portuguese. In V Workshop in Formal Linguistics at USP. University of São Paulo, August 25-26.
Luiz Amaral and Gláucia Silva (2005). Integrating CALL tools into the Portuguese classroom. In 58th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky. April 21 - 23.
Luiz Amaral (2004). Um modelo de restrições semânticas de complementos verbais para o PB. In The Fourth International Conference of the American Portuguese Studies Association. University of Maryland, College Park. October 14-16.
Luiz Amaral, Claudia Oliveira, and Milena Garrão (2003). How complex are complex prepositions? In 7th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS). University of New Mexico. October 16-18.