Portuguese as a second language among Timbira indians: difficult elements in verbal acquisition

Authors

  • Juliana Chaves Souza
  • Rosane de Sá Amado

Keywords:

Portuguese, second language acquisition, morphology, writing.

Abstract

This article is part of the study area on Portuguese for Speakers of Other Languages, specifically for indigenous people. The aim is to analyze the difficulties in the acquisition of verbal inflection of Portuguese by timbira speakers, Jê family, Macro-Jê stock. It was possible to verify the interference of L1 in L2 acquisition as well as the interaction between morphology and syntax in the corpus, by reading and analyzing texts produced by timbira students.

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Published

2016-04-04

How to Cite

Souza, J. C., & Amado, R. de S. (2016). Portuguese as a second language among Timbira indians: difficult elements in verbal acquisition. Estudos Linguísticos (São Paulo. 1978), 40(2), 595–602. Retrieved from https://revistadogel.emnuvens.com.br/estudos-linguisticos/article/view/1320

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Section

Aquisição de Linguagem: L2/LE