Towards an agenda to investigate language development in an indigenous group in the Amazon

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2021.v17n1a55123

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Quantificação e habilidades numéricas, sistemas numéricos e desenvolvimento conceitual, aquisição da Linguagem, cognição e linguagem, línguas amazônicas.

Resumo

O presente trabalho avança uma agenda de pesquisa no campo mais amplo de linguagem e cognição, com vista ao estudo da expressão de conceitos numéricos no desenvolvimento inicial. No cerne da agenda proposta, está a questão da relação entre a aquisição de primeira língua e a expressão de conceitos numéricos na infância. Existem dois processos para explicar a expressão da informação numérica nas línguas. A primeira se dá por meio da estrutura gramatical da língua (seu sistema quantificacional). A segunda é a expressão direta do número com o uso de expressões de linguagem numérica. O primeiro processo é denominado “número gramatical”, o segundo, “número linguístico”. Na tentativa de levantar questões que vão além das investigações anteriores e expandir as considerações linguísticas e cognitivas, a proposta inclui discussões sobre várias habilidades numéricas em diferentes contextos linguísticos à luz do desenvolvimento conceitual de sistemas de numeração. Esperamos que esta proposta levante questões cognitivas e linguísticas interessantes no âmbito das línguas faladas por povos originários amazônicos.

Biografia do Autor

Claudia Uller, Kingston University - London

Claudia Uller was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She obtained her PhD in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was a postdoctoral fellow with Alan Leslie at the Rutgers Centre for Cognitive Science and Department of Psychology, where she lectured as visiting assistant professor. Claudia moved to the United Kingdom to take a post in the University of Essex. She was invited to work as senior lecturer at the University of Cambridge, after which she became Head of Department of Psychology at Kingston University, where she is now associate professor. Claudia's research interests lie in the origins of knowledge in babies, and the evolutionary/comparative cognitive underpinnings in other species

Marília Facó Soares, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Marília Facó Soares is Full Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq, Brazil). She works in postgraduate courses in the areas of Linguistics, Social Anthropology and Archeology. PhD in Linguistics (UNICAMP, 1992), with a Dissertation on Tikuna, a language spoken by one of the largest indigenous groups in Brazil, which also has speakers in Peru and Colombia. In addition to her continued work on Tikuna, her research activities have also included languages of the Tupi-Guarani and Pano language families. For over thirty years she has worked directly with indigenous populations, advising projects in the field of indigenous education. She coordinated, for eight years, collaborative projects with French teams within the framework of an agreement between Brazil and France. She also coordinated and executed linguistic works focused on archives and research collections and received, in Brazil, awards for projects focused on indigenous languages. As part of her academic education, while still an undergraduate student (UFRJ), she studied literature and music, the latter of which included and preceded her own graduation. Her work with indigenous peoples and languages has encompassed both Amazonian and Central Brazilian groups. Her main research interests are in linguistic theory and analysis, indigenous languages, historical linguistics and applied linguistics.

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2021-04-12