Speakers

Amália Mendes

University of Lisbon

Amália Mendes is Associate Professor at the University of Lisbon and former director of Lisbon's Centre for Linguistics Research (CLUL). Her research focuses on corpus linguistics, language resources, corpora and lexicons. Among other corpora, she led the development of COPLE2, an important learner corpus of Portuguese as second language (http://teitok.clul.ul.pt/cople2/). She was also part of the team that developed the new version of the Reference Corpus of Contemporary Portuguese (CRPC), an i

Anabela Rato

University of Toronto

Anabela Rato is Assistant Professor and Associate Chair of Portuguese Studies at the University of Toronto. She is also the president of the Canadian Association of Teachers of Portuguese (CATPor). Her research interests include second language and heritage language speech acquisition, speech perception and production, phonetic training, applied phonetics, and sound variation.

Dana Gablasova

Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University

Dana Gablasova is Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) at Lancaster University. Her research focuses on corpus-based approaches to vocabulary, language learning and language testing. Dana has led the development of (and research on) the Trinity Lancaster Corpus of spoken L2 English production. The corpus contains over 4.2 million words from more than 2,000 interactions between L2 speakers of English (exam candidates) and L1 speakers of English (examiners), making it the largest corpus of its ki

João Veríssimo

University of Lisbon

João Veríssimo is Assistant Professor at the University of Lisbon, Guest Scientist at the University of Potsdam, and Statistical Advisor for Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. His research focuses on how words are mentally represented and processed by monolingual and bilingual speakers.

Miquel Llompart Garcia

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Miquel Llompart Garcia is Assistant Professor at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He's a phonetician by training and his research lies at the crossroads between phonetics, psycholinguistics and second language acquisition. Some of his recent work focused on the relationship between implicit and explicit language learning abilities and linguistic knowledge in monolingual and bilingual speakers.