Alex de Carvalho

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Language Acquisition, Processing & Development

 

EDUCATION:

PhD. Cognitive Sciences, Ecole normale supérieure, PSL University - September 2017
M.A. in Cognitive Sciences, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris, 2014
B.A. in Linguistics/Education, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 2011

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• de Carvalho, A., Crimon, C., Barrault, A., Trueswell, J., & Christophe, A. (in press). "Look! It is not a bamoule!" 18- and 24-month-olds can use negative sentences to constrain their interpretation of novel word meanings. Developmental Science.

• Kolberg, L., de Carvalho, A., Babineau, M., Havron, N., Fiévet, A-C., Abaurre, B., & Christophe, A. (in press). “The tiger is hitting! The duck too!” 3-year-olds can use prosodic information to constrain their interpretation of ellipsis. Cognition.

• Havron, N., Babineau, M., Fiévet, A-C., de Carvalho, A., & Christophe, A (in press). Syntactic prediction adaptation accounts for language processing and language learning. Language Learning.

• de Carvalho, A., Dautriche, I., Fiévet, A-C., & Christophe, A. (2021). Toddlers exploit referential and syntactic cues to flexibly adapt their interpretation of novel verb meanings. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Volume 203, 105017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2020.105017. (link for free access until Jan 2021)

• Babineau, de Carvalho, A., Trueswell, J., & Christophe, A. (2020). Familiar words can serve as a semantic seed for syntactic bootstrapping. Developmental Science. 00:e13010. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13010

• de Carvalho, A., He, A. X., Lidz, J., & Christophe, A. (2019). Prosody and function words cue the acquisition of word meanings in 18-month-old infants. Psychological Science, 30(3), 319–332. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797618814131

• de Carvalho, A., Babineau, M., Trueswell, J., Waxman, S., & Christophe, A. (2019). Studying the real-time interpretation of novel noun and verb meanings in young children Frontiers in Psychology. 10:274(February), 1–16. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00274 (link)
  
  
• de Carvalho, A., Dautriche, I., Lin, I., & Christophe, A. (2017). Phrasal prosody constrains syntactic analysis in toddlers. Cognition, 163, 67-79. (link)

• de Carvalho, A., Lidz, J., Tieu, L., Bleam, T., & Christophe, A. (2016). English-speaking preschoolers can use phrasal prosody for syntactic parsing. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 139(6), EL216-EL222 (.pdf)

• de Carvalho, A.*, Reboul, A.*, Van der Henst, J-B., Chelyus, A., Nazir, T. (2016). Scalar Implicatures: The Psychological Reality of Scales. Frontiers in Psychology. 7:1500. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01500 (.pdf) (link)

• de Carvalho, A., Dautriche, I., & Christophe, A. (2016). Preschoolers use phrasal prosody online to constrain syntactic analysis. Developmental Science, 19:2, pp. 235-250
  
  
• Havron, N., de Carvalho, A., Fiévet, A-C, & Christophe (2019). 3-4-year-old children rapidly adapt their predictions and use them to learn novel word meanings. Child Development, 90(1), 82-90. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13113

• Brusini, P., Dehaene-Lambertz, G., van Heugten, M., de Carvalho, A., Goffinet, F., Fiévet, A-C., & Christophe, A. (2017). Ambiguous function words do not prevent 18-month-olds from building accurate syntactic category expectations: An ERP study. Neuropsychologia, 98. 4-12. (link)
  

 

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