CURRICULUM VITAE
OF
Ana Cristina Gouvea
Communication Sciences and Disorders Department
EDUCATION
Degree
Institution
Field
Ph.D.
University of Maryland
M.A.
Federal University Rio de Janeiro
Specialization Federal University Rio de Janeiro
B.A.
Federal University Juiz de Fora
FULL-TIME ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Institution
Rank
SFSU
UMD
UMD
UFRJ (Brazil)
UFRJ (Brazil)
Post-doctoral Fellow
Research Assistant
Teaching Assistant
Assistant Professor
Research Assistant
Post-doctoral Fellow
Researcher
Researcher
Teaching Assistant
Linguistics
Linguistics
Linguistics
Portuguese and French
Field
Field
Neurolinguistics
Neurolinguistics
Neurolinguistics
French
NON-ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Place of Employment
The Group Cultural Activities Centers (Brazil)
Britannia Special Language Studies (Brazil)
Alliance Francaise (Brazil)
Andrews school (Brazil)
Alliance Francaise (Brazil)
Title
Teacher of French
Teacher of French
Teacher of French
Teacher of French
Teacher of French
1997-2003
1990-1994
1989
1984-1988
Dates (Month &Year)
Language Acquisition
Neurolinguistics/Psycholinguistics
Linguistics
Linguistics
Linguistics
PART-TIME ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Institution
Rank
UCSF
UFF (Brazil)
UFRJ (Brasil)
UFJF (Brazil)
Dates
01/2004-06/2005
09/1999-06/2003
09/1998-12/1998
01/1996-06/1997
08/1994-06/1995
Dates (Month & Year)
01/2004-06/2004
05/1996-07/1996
10/1995-02/1996
05/1988-08/1988
Dates
03/1993-07/1994
08-12/1992, 03-06/1994
08-12/1991
03/1990- 12/1991
03/1987 – 12/1988
EMPLOYMENT RECORD AT FIU
Rank
Assistant Professor
Dates
08/2007-present
PUBLICATIONS IN DISCIPLINE
Books N/A
Articles
Gouvea, A.C., Phillips, C., Kazanina, N. & Poeppel, D. 2010. The linguistic processes underlying the P600.
Language and Cognitive Processes, 25 (2), 149-188.
Gouvea, A.C. 2001. Syntactic complexity in English: on-line evidence from an eye-tracking experiment.
UMD Working Papers in Linguistics, vol.11, p. 85-111 NPR
Gouvea, A.C. 2000. Syntactic complexity in Brazilian Portuguese and English using Rapid Serial Visual
Presentation (RSVP) technique. UMD Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 9., p. 22-40 NPR
Proceedings
Gouvea, A.C., Aldana, G., Bell, T., Cody, K., de Groat, C., Johnson, C., McCabe, D., Zimmerman, L.,
Kim, J.J. 2005. 18 month old infants’sensitivity to number agreement inside the Noun Phrase. Proceedings
of the 29th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston, p. 240247.
Gouvea, A.C. & Poeppel, D. 2001. Working memory and syntactic complexity in Brazilian Portuguese and
English. Proceedings of the 31st Conference of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS), Georgetown
University, Washington D.C.
Gouvea, A.C. & Poeppel, D. 2000. Complexidade sintática em português brasileiro e inglês. Boletim da
Associação Brasileira de Lingüística , Fortaleza, Brazil, vol 25, p. 49-59
França, A. I. & Gouvea, A.C. 1997. Do verbo passar ao gatês: o léxico gerativo. Proceedings of the 6th
Congress of ASSEL (Association for Studies in Linguistics), Fórum de Ciência e Cultura/UFRJ, p. 623-631
Gouvea, A. C. 1996. As relações linguagem/mente/cérebro: uma proposta de discussão a partir dos
estudos sobre afasia. Proceedings of the 5th Congress of ASSEL (Association for Studies in Linguistics),
Fórum de Ciência e Cultura/UFRJ, p. 239-246.
Gouvea, A.C. 1995. O parâmetro da ergatividade e a língua karibe Macuxi. Proceedings of the 4th
Congress of ASSEL (Association for Studies in Linguistics), Instituto de Letras/Universidade Federal
Fluminense, p. 440-445.
Chapters in Books
Gouvea, A.C. 2005. Complexidade Sintática: o processamento de orações relativas em português
brasileiro e em inglês (Syntactic complexity: the processing of relative clauses in Brazilian Portuguese and
English). In M. Maia and Ingrid Finger (eds.), Processamento da Linguagem, pp. 210-219, ed. Educarte,
Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Government Reports or Monographs N/A
Book Reviews N/A
OTHER PUBLICATIONS N/A
PRESENTED PAPERS, AND LECTURES
Psycholinguistic techniques as a research tool to study communications disorders. Posted at the ASHA
Conference, New Orleans, November, 2009
Bilingual processing of ambiguous relative clauses. Posted at the ASHA Conference, New Orleans,
November, 2009
Psycholinguistic techniques and the study of language development and processing. Invited speaker at
the English Department, Florida International University, October 24th 2007
What do infants know about their grammar: evidence from 18 month old children Invited speaker at the
Communication Sciences and Disorders Department, Florida International University, FL, April 23rd
2007.
The processing of Noun Phrase number agreement: evidence from 15 and 18 month old infants. Posted
at the 18th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY), Tucson, AZ, March 31st to
April 2nd, 2005.
18 month old infants’sensitivity to number agreement inside the Noun Phrase. Posted at the 29th Annual
Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston, November 5-7, 2004.
Relative clauses processing in Brazilian Portuguese and English: a self-paced study. Posted at the
Annual Conference on the Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Aix-enProvence, France, September 16th to 18th, 2004.
Infant sensitivity to grammatical dependencies in English and Spanish. Poster presented at the 1st Psi
Chi conference, Psychology Department, San Francisco State University, CA, May 13th 2004.
The on-line processing of relative clauses in Brazilian Portuguese and English. Posted at the 17th
Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY), College Park, MD, March 25th to 27th,
2004.
O uso de eletroencefalograma no estudo do processamento sintático (The use of
Electroencephalography in the study of syntactic processing). Invited speaker at the Biomedical
Engineer Program, Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute of Graduation and Research in Engineering/COPPE,
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. October 8th, 2003
O processamento de orações relativas em Português e em Inglês e o uso de Potenciais Evocados ao
Evento (ERP) no estudo da complexidade sintática (Relative clause processing in Brazilian Portuguese
and in English and the use of Event-Related Potentials in the study of syntactic complexity). Invited
speaker at the Linguistics Department, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. October 7th,
2003.
Syntactic processes reflected by the P600. Posted at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive
Neuroscience Society, New York, NY, March 30th- April 1st, 2003.
The P600 reflects different syntactic computations at different time intervals. Posted at the 16th Annual
Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY), Boston, MA, March 27th to 29th, 2003.
Relative clause processing and extraposition in Brazilian Portuguese and English. Posted at the 15th
Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY), New York, NY, March 21st to 23rd, 2002.
Relative clause processing and extraposition in a cross-linguistic study. Talk presented at the
Linguistics Department Student Conference, University of Maryland, College Park, March 15th , 2002.
The processing of relative clauses in English and Brazilian Portuguese. Talk presented at the MEG Lab
opening Events, Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Lab/ Linguistics Department, University of
Maryland, College Park, February 21st, 2002.
Relative clause processing and its interaction with cross-linguistic syntactic properties. Talk presented
at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), San Francisco, January 3rd to 6th,
2002.
Memória de trabalho e complexidade sintática: evidências “on-line” a partir de um experimento
usando “eye-tracking”. Invited speaker at the Linguistics Department, Universidade Federal do Rio de
Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. June 21st, 2001.
Relative clauses and conjoined sentences processing: an eye-tracking experiment. Posted at the 14th
Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY), Philadelphia, PA, March 15th to 17th,
2001.
Working memory and syntactic complexity in English: an eye-tracking experiment. Talk presented at the
Linguistics Department Student Conference. University of Maryland, College Park, March 9th , 2001.
Working memory metrics and the processing of relative and conjoined clauses. Talk presented at the
Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Washington D.C., January 4th to 7th, 2001.
Working Memory and syntactic complexity in Brazilian Portuguese and English. Talk presented at the
31st Conference of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS), Georgetown University, Washington
D.C., October 6th -8th, 2000.
Métricas de memória de trabalho e o processamento de orações relativas e coordenadas em português
brasileiro e em inglês. Invited speaker at the Linguistics Department, Universidade Federal do Rio de
Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. July 27th, 2000.
O processamento de orações relativas e coordenadas em português brasileiro e inglês. Invited speaker
at the Linguistics Division, Department of Anthropology, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de
Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. July 24th, 2000.
Complexidade sintática em português brasileiro e inglês. Talk presented at the 52th Annual Meeting of
the Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência (SBPC), Brasília, Brazil, July 9th-14th, 2000.
Cross-linguistic differences in processing relative & conjoined sentences: RSVP evidence from
Brazilian Portuguese and English. Posted at the 13th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing
(CUNY), La Jolla, CA – March 30th – April 1st, 2000
Relative and conjoined sentence processing using RSVP and EEG. Talk presented at the Linguistics
Department Student Conference, University of Maryland, College Park, Nov.11th and 12th, 1999
O processamento sintático visto do ponto de vista da neurociência cognitiva da linguagem. Invited
speaker at the Linguistics Department, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. July, 1999.
Stress in Kuikuro (caribe): some OT considerations. Talk presented at the Linguistics Department
Student Conference, University of Maryland, College Park, Fall, 1998.
Formas [V-do] e classe de palavras. Talk presented at the National Meeting of Adjectives, Universidade
Nacional de Brasilia, Brazil, May 18th and 19th, 1996.
CREATIVE WORK N/A
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Gouvea, A.C. & Kim, J.J. Infants’ sensitivity to morphosyntactic dependencies in the Noun Phrase:
evidence from 15 and 18 month olds. Resubmitted to Language Learning and Development.
Gouvea, A.C. Relative clause attachment in simultaneous and early Spanish/English bilingual speakers.
Manuscript for submission to Applied Psycholinguistics.
Gouvea, A.C. O conhecimento sintático de bebês de 18 meses (18 month old syntactic knowledge).
Manuscript for submission to Revista Neurociência Brazil
Gouvea, A.C., Phillips, C. & Poeppel, D. The processing of relative clauses in Brazilian Portuguese and
English. Manuscript, for submission to Journal of Psycholinguistic Research.
Gouvea, A.C. The use of electroencephalography in the study of language processing. Manuscript, for
submission to Revista Delta, Brazil.
Grant Proposals
Monolingual and bilingual infant’s sensitivity to agreement morphology in Spanish – NIH – January
2011
FUNDED RESEARCH N/A
PROPOSALS SUBMITTED BUT NOT FUNDED N/A
PATENT DISCLOSURES, APPLICATIONS, AND AWARDS N/A
PROFESSIONAL HONORS, PRIZES, FELLOWSHIPS
Research Assistantship – Linguistics Department - University of Maryland at College Park, MD, USA.
(1999-2003)
Scholarship for support during PhD Program – CAPES / Brazil (Personal Enhancement Coordination for
the Graduate School) (1999-2001)
Teaching Assistantship – Linguistics Department - University of Maryland at College Park, MD, USA.
(Fall 1998)
Research Assistantship - FINEP Program for Graduate Studies in Social Anthropology, Museu
Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (1994-1995)
Scholarship for conclusion of Master's degree – FAPERJ/ Brazil (State Foundation for Research Support)
(1993-1994)
Scholarship for support during Master’s Program – CNP q/ Brazil (The National Research Council) (19901992)
OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
N/A
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICE
Member CNHS Curriculum Committee (Spring 2008 to present)
Member CSD department Master Admissions Committee (Spring 2011)
Member Thesis Committee of Melissa Argumosa, Psychology Department (Fall 2010)
Advisor for Master’s students: 4 students in 2007-2009, 4 students 2008-2010, 7 students 2009-2011, 6
students 2010-2012.
Teacher of Linguistics in an education course for indigenous teachers in Brazil. The aim of the course was
to give instruments to the indigenous populations to teach in their own language and to prepare pedagogical
material, grammars and dictionaries of their native languages. (January 1995)
Contacted the Neurology Department of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and helped in the
creation of the Aphasiology Out-Patient Clinic with prof. Marcus Martins at the University hospital.
Conducted research on aphasia at the clinic. (October 1995- February 1996).
Reviewer for the University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics (UMWPiL) (2001, 2002).
Ad hoc Reviewer for Forum Linguistico, Linguistics Graduate Program, Universidade Federal de Santa
Catarina, Brazil.
Ad hoc Reviewer for Ciência Hoje, Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
Ad hoc Reviewer for Language and Cognitive Processes.