Updated : 09/10/14 1 Alex Sander Lopa de Carvalho
PhD Student
Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique - LSCP
Department of Cognitive Sciences
École Normale Supérieure
29 rue d'Ulm - Pavillon Jardin
75005 Paris
Phone: +33 01 44 32 26 31
[email protected]
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Language Acquisition, Processing & Development Education: PhD. in Cognitive Sciences (expected 2017) M.A. in Cognitive Sciences, École Normale Supérieure -­‐ Paris, 2014 (with Honnors -­‐ Cum Laude) B.A. in Linguistics/Education, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 2011 (with Honnors -­‐ Cum Laude) Additional training:
Ø ESCOP Summer school on Language – Summer school of the European Society for
Cognitive Psychology. BCBL – San Sébastian/Spain – 2014
Ø 4th summer school on "Speech Production and Perception: Speaker-Specific Behavior”
Aix-en-Provence, France – Sep/Oct – 2013
Ø IV ISBRA : IBRO Summer school of Neuroscience. Rio de Janeiro, Brasil - 2008
Research Experiences:
Since 2012 - Master’s & PhD Internship
LSCP – Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Paris - France
Title: Bootstrapping lexicon and syntax acquisition
Advisor: Dr. Anne Christophe
2011 – 2012 - Master’s Internship
L2C2 – Laboratoire sur le langage, le cerveau et la cognition, Lyon - France
Title: Scalar Implicatures: lexicon « or » Theory of Mind?
Advisors: Dr. Anne Reboul & Dr. Jean-Michel Roy
2010 – 2011 – Research Assistant
INCA Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives et Intégratives d’Acquitaine, Bordeaux - FR
Project: The perception of prosody in patients with autism spectrum disorders.
Advisor: Dr. Isabelle Hesling
2007 – 2011 : Research Assistant
Acesin – Laboratory of Syntactic Access - UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
Project: The perception of consonants by three-to-six months old babies.
Advisor: Dr. Aniela França
Updated : 09/10/14 2 Grants:
PhD fellowship from École Normale Supérieure (2014 – 2017)
Master fellowship from the International Selection of ENS, Paris (2012 – 2014).
Ampère Excellence fellowship – ENS, Lyon (2011- 2012)
Undergraduate fellowship for research studies – CNPq, Brésil (2008 – 2010)
o Paula Menyuk Travel Award – Boston University Congress on Language Acquisition and
Development (November 2013)
o GDR – Neuroscience of development Travel Award (September 2013)
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Publications :
In preparation :
de Carvalho, A.*, Dautriche, I.*, Christophe, A. (in prep). Toddlers flexibly interpret novel
verbs in different syntactic contexts
de Carvalho, A., Dautriche, I., Christophe, A. (under review). Three-year-olds use prosody
online to constrain syntactic analysis
Reboul, A.,* & de Carvalho, A.*, Van der Henst, J-B., Chelyus, A., Roy, J-M., Nazir, T. (in
prep). Scalar implicatures: are scales psychological realities?
Published:
de Carvalho, A., França, A (2012). Improvement of techniques to study early language
development. In: Proceedings of the 16th Congreso Internacional de La Asociación de
Lingüística y Filología de América Latina. Alcalá, Spain. p.2953-2960. (Paper written in
Portuguese)
de Carvalho, A., Costa, M., França, A (2012). New strategies for the production of scalar
implicature. In: Proceedings of the 16th Congreso Internacional de La Asociación de Lingüística
y Filología de América Latina. Alcalá, Spain. p.1255-1260. (Paper written in Portuguese)
Machado, A., Souza, M., Sampaio, T., de Carvalho, A (2011). Speech perception: natural and
environmental influences on language acquisition. In: Proceedings of the 4th Scientiarum
historia - 4º Congresso de história das ciências e das técnicas e epistemologia. (1).p. 67-73.
(Paper written in Portuguese)
Abstracts published in Proceedings :
de Carvalho, A., Dautriche, I., Christophe, A., (2014) Toddlers exploit prosodic structure online
to constrain syntactic analysis. In: the 20th AMLaP Conference – Architectures and Mechanisms
for Language Processing. Edinburgh, Scotland, 4-6 September 2014. Proceedings. p. 29.
de Carvalho, A., Dautriche, I., Christophe, A., (2013) Children’s use of prosody to compute
syntactic structure on-line. In: the 4th International summer school on "Speech Production and
Updated : 09/10/14 3 Perception: Speaker-Specific Behavior. Aix-en-Provence, France. Proceedings edited by Fuchs,
S., Pape, D., Petrone, C., Magister, C. (eds). p. 47-48.
de Carvalho, A., Reboul, A., (2012) Theory of Mind & lexicon: A study of scalar implicatures.
In: the 6th Lodz Symposium on “New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics” - NDLP2012.
Lodz, Pologne. Book of Abstracts edited by Joanna Nijakowska and Piotr Cap. Primum Verbum.
p. 37-38.
de Carvalho, A., Rodrigues, L. (2010) French as a Foreign Language (FLE): New teaching’s
perspectives for 6-to-10 year-olds children. In: X Colóquio de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em
Letras Neolatinas, 2010, Rio de Janeiro. Proceedings – Book of abstracts. Rio de Janeiro :
Comissão do programa de pós-graduação em letras neolatinas, 2010. p. 17.
Media Coverage :
By Catherine Marchi (2014) - Children's language decrypted – Magazine Parents – Paris.
http://www.parents.fr/Best-of-Mag/Pediatrie/Reportage-au-BabyLab-le-langage-des-enfantsdecrypte
By Miriam Paço – AgN/CT (2008) - The perception of consonants by newborns. (On Olhar
Virtual – Argumento) - Agência virtual de notícias UFRJ - Centro de Tecnologia, Rio de
Janeiro, 14 nov. - Brazil.
http://www.olharvirtual.ufrj.br/2006/index.php?id_edicao=152&codigo=3
Presentations:
In Peer-Reviewed Congress:
Talks:
de Carvalho, A., Dautriche, I., Christophe, A. (2014). Toddlers exploit prosodic structure online
to constrain syntactic analysis. AMLaP Conference – Architectures and Mechanisms for
Language Processing. Edinburgh, Scotland, 4-6 September.
de Carvalho, A., Dautriche, I., Christophe, A. (2013). Three-year-olds use prosody online to
constrain syntactic analysis. 38th Boston University Conference on Language Development,
Boston (USA), 1-3 Novembre.
de Carvalho, A., Dautriche, I., Christophe, A., (2013) Children’s use of prosody to compute
syntactic structure on-line. 4th International summer school on Speech Production and
Perception: Speaker-Specific Behavior. Aix-en-Provence (France), 30 Sep – 4 Oct.
de Carvalho, A., Costa, M., França, A. (2011) The children’s cognition of scalar implicatures.
Primer Encuentro de Grupos de Investigación sobre Procesamiento del Lenguaje – PROLEN.
Buenos Aires (Argentine), 4 – 6 Mai.
Updated : 09/10/14 4 Invited talks:
de Carvalho, A., (2013). The Cognitive Development of Infants. II International Conference of
the School of Languages and Literatures - CIFALE. Rio de Janeiro (Brasil), 2 – 5 Septembre.
Posters :
de Carvalho, A., Costa, M., França, A. (2011). Strategies of oral productions using scalar
implicatures by children. The VIIth International Conference of the Brazilian Linguistics
Association (Abralin). Curitiba (Brazil). February
de Carvalho, A., França, A. (2010). Early language development: high-amplitude sucking
paradigm. First International Psycholinguistics Congress. Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). March
de Carvalho, A., França, A., (2009). Early access to language development: creating a new hasp
paradigm. The VIth International Conference of the Brazilian Linguistics Association (Abralin).
João Pessoa – PA (Brazil). March
Others congress, seminars and workshops :
de Carvalho, A., Dautriche, I., Christophe, A. (2013). Three year-olds process phonological
phrase boundaries to constrain the online syntactic analysis of spoken sentences. Journée du
GDR Neurosciences Cognitives du Développement, Paris, (France). 4 Juliet. (Talk)
Machado, A., Souza, M., Samapio, T., de Carvalho, A. (2011). Percepção da fala: influências
naturais e ambientais na aquisição de linguagem. 4º Congresso de história das ciências e das
técnicas e epistemologia. Rio de Janeiro (Brasil). (Talk)
de Carvalho, A. Rodrigues, L. (2010) Francês Língua Estrangeira (FLE): novas perspectivas de
ensino para crianças de 6 a 10 anos. X Symposium des études supérieures et de recherches en
lettres néo-latines. UFRJ. Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). (Talk)
Teaching Experience:
Summer 2013: Advanced Topics in Language Acquisition – 39h - Experimental linguistics
program (POSLING) – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
2010 – 2011: Portuguese Language – 144h – levels : beginners to advanced- Université Michel
de Montaigne, Bordeaux III (France)
2010 – 2011: Portuguese & Brazilian language, culture and civilization– 336h – Lycée François
Magendie, Lycée de Graves, Collège Julles Ferry, Bordeaux (France).
2008 – 2010 : Pedagogic Assistant – Dice English Course for babies & children : Developing
Intelligent and Creative English.
Updated : 09/10/14 5 Skills:
• Languages
Portuguese: Native speaker
French: Second Language (High-advanced level), I am living in France since 2010.
English: Advanced level
Espagnol : Read: advanced, written and spoken: intermediary.
Italien: Beginning.
• Computer
Advanced knowledge of Software and Hardware.
Software’s knowledge: Python, Praat, R, MatLab, Statistica, Psychopy, OpenSesame, Pack
Office (Word, Excel, Power Point ..), MacOS, Audacity, Photoshop, Adobe Premier Elements,
Windows, Internet Explorer, etc.