PhonBank Portuguese-French Almeida Corpus

Laetitia de Almeida Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage Institut des Sciences de l'Homme laetitia.dealmeida@cnrs.fr website

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Citation information

Almeida, L. (2011). Acquisition de la structure syllabique en contexte de bilinguisme simultané portugais/français. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Lisbon.

Almeida, L., Rose, Y. & Freitas, M. J. (2012). Prosodic Influence in Bilingual Phonological Development: Evidence from a Portuguese-French First Language Learner. In Biller, A. K., Chung, E. Y. & Kimball, A. E. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 42–52. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Almeida, L. (2014). The acquisition of word-final consonants in a bilingual learner of French and European Portuguese. In Costa, J., Fiéis, A., Freitas, M. J., Lobo, M. & Santos, A. L. (eds.), New Directions in the Acquisition of Romance Languages. Selected Proceedings of the Romance Turn V. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 62-77.

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Project Description

Participant name: Barbara
Sex: F
Age range: 1;00.08-3;10.28
Sessions: 54 French; 55 Portuguese

Barbara was recorded at home in a naturalistic setting, approximately every second week. The records were divided into two sessions, one for each of the native languages of the child, taking place at the same day. A Portuguese native speaker carried out the Portuguese sessions and the bilingual investigator carried out the French sessions, speaking exclusively French to the child. Each session lasted approximately 30 mns. During the recordings the child typically looked at picture books and played with toys. Most of the time, the parent (or caretaker) who spoke the language of the session was present. Occasionally, the mother or the grandmother (native speakers of Portuguese) were present in the French sessions because the child would not talk otherwise. In those cases, they did not talk to the child during the session.

Most of the time, the child would use the language of the session. The utterances in the other language were codified as such ('por' for Portuguese or 'fra' for French) and were not transcribed. Mixed utterances were not transcribed either. It could occur that the child used one lexical item in the other language, either because she did not know the translation, either because it was the name of a toy, or a proper name. Those cases are codified as 'mixed' and were fully transcribed. The complete list of those lexical items is available. Information such as noise, overlapping speech, repeated speech or other useful aspects is provided in the Notes field.

The recordings were collected using a miniDV digital camera Panasonic GS 200 with a microphone.

This corpus is part of the Acquisition of European Portuguese Databank (AcEP – www.clul.ul.pt/en/research-teams/476-acquisition-of-european-portuguese- databank).

Most frequent lexical items in mixed utterances

Portuguese names in French Sessions	Meaning
Chico	name of the family dog
Rita	name of a toy
Costa	name of a place
Benfica	Portuguese soccer team
Pedro	proper name
Pantufa	name of a toy
Anita	name of a toy
Piupiu	name of a toy
Vovô/Vovó	grandfather/grandmother
Quico/Quica	name of a toy
Pintar	to draw
Luisa	proper name
Joana	proper name
Senhor palhaço	name of a toy
João	proper name
Bolinhas	name of a toy
Flamengo	type of Portuguese cheese
Gordo	name of a toy
Bárbara	name of a toy

French names in Portuguese Sessions	Meaning
Françoise	proper name
Quentin	proper name
Hélia	proper name
Thierry	proper name
Babar	proper name
Céleste	proper name
Marine	proper name
Doudou	cuddly toy
Arthur	proper name

Portuguese names in French sessions	French names in Portuguese sessions
Chico: name of the family dog	Françoise: proper name
Rita: name of a toy	Quentin: proper name
Costa: name of a place	Hélia: proper name
Benfica: Portuguese soccer team	Thierry: proper name
Pedro: proper name	Babar: proper name
Pantufa: name of a toy	Céleste: proper name
Anita: name of a toy	Marine: proper name
Piupiu: name of a toy	Doudou: cuddly toy
Vovô/Vovó: grandfather/grandmother	Arthur: proper name
Quico/Quica: name of a toy
Pintar: to draw
Luisa: proper name
Joana: proper name
Senhor palhaço: name of a toy
João: proper name
Bolinhas: name of a toy
Flamengo: type of Portuguese cheese
Gordo: name of a toy
Bárbara: name of a toy

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