A new article by Alessandra Baldo suggests that when advanced learners get stuck, they often build target-like words using patterns from their native language—pointing teachers toward feedback on recurring repair strategies rather than isolated mistakes. doi.org/10.25189/267...

Learners sometimes fill lexical gaps by adapting a known word into a target-like form or by using an existing word with an imported meaning. Baldo documents these patterns in advanced learner writing and shows how cross-language knowledge can surface even at high proficiency. doi.org/10.25189/267...

Most word “slips” in L2 writing happen under the radar. In this study, Baldo argues learners often don’t notice their lexical deviationsnand would likely be unable to explain what triggered them. She suggests introspective methods like verbal protocols. doi.org/10.25189/267...

Janayna Carvalho is an Associate Editor at CadLin. She studies Brazilian Portuguese morphosyntax in a generative, Romance-comparative view, focusing on impersonal constructions and pronominal/reflexive change. cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca...

Advanced learners from Italy writing in Portuguese sometimes invent a word when the right one won’t come: "esfrutamento", "soferença". In 90 student essays, Alessandra Baldo finds 28 nonstandard word forms or meanings, most linked to Italian influence. #langsky #linguistics doi.org/10.25189/267...

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Evidence on categorization in aphasia and dementia comes mostly from a narrow language base. When experimental data are missing for some languages, cross-language comparison and clinical inference are harder. doi.org/10.25189/267...

Experimental work suggests that neurological conditions can raise the “cost” of meaning-based categorization—slowing decisions and increasing variability in performance. That makes everyday semantic judgments a useful window into language–cognition interaction. doi.org/10.25189/267...

Ingrid Finger (UFRGS) is an Associate Editor of Cadernos de Linguística. She researches bilingualism and bilingual education, language processing in bilinguals, and biliteracy in unimodal and bimodal contexts. cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca...

When a task feels automatic, we rarely notice how much work it takes. Experimental research shows that changes in language or memory can slow down everyday decisions that depend on meaning—and sometimes make them less reliable. doi.org/10.25189/267...

A review of experimental studies suggests that aphasia and dementia often raise the mental effort required for language production and comprehension during categorization tasks. This added load can spill over into everyday language use, making communication harder. doi.org/10.25189/267...

How do researchers test categorizing when language is altered by aphasia or dementia? Samara Hellenn Juvito da Costa and Jan Edson Rodrigues Leite review 25 experiments. Many report slower, less accurate sorting by meaning, with semantic tasks often most strained. doi.org/10.25189/267...

Geraldo Vicente Martins is an Associate Editor of Cadernos de Linguística. At UFMS (Brazil), he works with discursive semiotics and enunciation, analyzing literary texts and song lyrics. cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca...

In a debate, someone may answer by renaming what you said. Example: “social benefits” gets recast as “handouts.” Zoé Camus shows how this label swap shifts the target, makes your point easier to attack, and forces you into repair: “That’s not what I said.” doi.org/10.25189/267... #linguistics

You describe an action one way; the reply renames it with a loaded label—like calling a land occupation an “aggression.” Zoé Camus shows how this kind of relabeling can redraw what a political discussion can be about next. doi.org/10.25189/267... #langsky #linguistics

Drawing on her work on interaction, meaning-making, and pragmatics, Zoé Camus shows in a new article how substituting a speaker’s words can redirect what a group ends up debating—and how speakers use further talk to bring the discussion back to their original point. doi.org/10.25189/267...

Ever had a reply attack something you didn’t mean? This paper analyzes “scarecrow” moves as a semantic reclassification and shows how “I didn’t say X; I said Y” can flag the shift. doi.org/10.25189/267... #linguistics

Thom Scott-Phillips presents a novel analysis of people's spontaneous intuitions about sentence acceptability "grounded in theoretical and empirical knowledge from cognitive linguistics, cognitive psychology and evolutionary approaches to the mind." cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca...

Thanks Ben! Very happy to read this cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca...

Someone can answer your idea in a meeting by turning it into a scarecrow: a claim you never made. Zoé Camus offers a new way to analyze this move: not just “bad faith”, but a semantic maneuver that shifts what the group ends up debating. #langsky #linguistics doi.org/10.25189/267...

Associate Editor of Cadernos de Linguística, Friederike Lüpke works on African linguistics, language documentation, and small-scale multilingualism, linking linguistic description to social practice and education. cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca...

From cognitive science and evolutionary work on communication, Thom Scott-Phillips brings a new proposal to a classic debate on linguistic intuitions and grammar—linking judgments of “oddness” to communicative relevance. Read: doi.org/10.25189/267...

What if the feeling that a sentence is “odd” doesn’t come from grammar at all? An open review highlights how Why Do Humans Have Linguistic Intuition? reframes acceptability as a matter of communicative relevance, not rule checking. Read the article: doi.org/10.25189/267...

Why do humans have linguistic intuition? And why should you care? A short thread about my new paper in @cadlin.bsky.social This work has the most original insight I've ever had, a genuinely new idea about the nature of language cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca... 1/20

Judgements of acceptability are often treated as evidence about grammar. This paper argues they are better understood as evidence about how humans interpret signals as communication, linking construction based models to relevance driven cognition. doi.org/10.25189/267... #langsky #linguistics

Like the Penrose triangle, some sentences seem possible at first glance but collapse when we try to interpret them. Thom Scott Phillips shows that linguistic intuition reacts to communicative failure, not to grammar. doi.org/10.25189/267... #langsky #linguistics

No question, this is the most original paper I have ever written It says that something that seems plain and obvious - humans have an intuitive sense of what is and is not grammatical - and describes how this apparent common sense is actually misleading Thread coming soon!

Why does “The rat the cat the dog chased killed ate the malt” feel wrong even though it is grammatical? Thom Scott Phillips links gut judgements to communicative usefulness, not abstract rules doi.org/10.25189/267... #langsky #linguistics

Frederick Newmeyer serves as Associate Editor of Cadernos de Linguística. His work covers generative syntax, linguistic history, typology and language evolution. Meet the editorial team: cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca...

New article in Cadernos de Linguística uses Paulo Freire’s idea of “reading the world” to discuss how a fairy-tale remake teaches us to see bodies, work and difference. Wonder what we carry beyond the last page? Read: doi.org/10.25189/267...

Imagine Paulo Freire watching Disney’s new Snow White. Machado and Teodoro use this film to discuss dwarfism, labour and beauty politics in a market fairy tale. Read the article: doi.org/10.25189/267... #langsky #linguistics

How do classic stories teach us to read certain bodies in limited ways? Drawing on Paulo Freire, this new article examines how narrative traditions keep reinforcing narrow interpretive paths. Read it here: doi.org/10.25189/267...

The new Disney Snow White raises questions about how films teach us to view different bodies. Drawing on Paulo Freire, this article examines what the CGI “solution” reveals about representation and its limits. Read the full article: doi.org/10.25189/267...

Machado and Teodoro critique the 2025 Snow White movie through Paulo Freire’s lens. They argue Disney chooses a clownish circus performance over the mythological warrior archetype. This choice limits how society views dwarfism and keeps it as a source of cheap laughter. doi.org/10.25189/267...

Academic writing is never a solo act. Barbosa demonstrates how theoretical sections function as meeting grounds for distinct voices. By examining a dissertation, she shows the page is a stage for dialogue where citing others builds your own argument. doi.org/10.25189/267...

Associate Editor Felix Ameka, emeritus linguistics professor at Leiden University, brings expertise on West African languages, ethnolinguistic vitality and cross-cultural pragmatics to Cadernos de Linguística. cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca...

Does a school desk promise personal glory or community hope? Fernanda Mota Pereira contrasts these views in English literature. In Ngugi wa Thiong'o's work, learning lifts a village. In Bernard Shaw's, it often feeds vanity. A vital call to decolonize English teaching. doi.org/10.25189/267...

Oliveira, Albuquerque & Cunha analyze how a satirical video of Bolsonaro ignited a firestorm of insults and polarization on Facebook. The line between digital fiction and political hate blurs as users weaponize their version of the truth. doi.org/10.25189/267...

Whitney calls language a social institution. Saussure calls it an institution with no counterpart. Núbia Rabelo Bakker Faria tracks how this shift opens the way for a formal view of linguistic systems. #langsky #linguistics doi.org/10.25189/267...

With Bolsonaro under arrest for trying to sabotage Brazilian democracy, front pages now show the end of a project that treated lives as collateral. Chaise and colleagues analyzes how an Extra cover already turned “Brazil above all” into an accusation over COVID 19 deaths. doi.org/10.25189/267...

Luiz F Ferreira shows how Karitiana expresses desire through three routes: the suffix wak for wanting something for oneself, the verb pyting for wanting events involving others, and the verb py’eep for rejecting an outcome. A clear view of volition in this Amazonian language. doi.org/10.25189/267...

As Associate Editor of Cadernos de Linguística, works on materialist Discourse Analysis, Spanish language education, and studies of discourse, memory, culture and decolonial perspectives in Latin America. cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca...

Readers often feel that poems and magazine covers teem with metaphor while scientific texts seem restrained. Dalby Dienstbach shows how cues of metaphoricity guide that intuition across genres. #langsky #linguistics doi.org/10.25189/267...

Cadernos de Linguística is now a PCI RR-friendly journal (@pci-regreports.bsky.social). This means authors can publish Registered Reports in Cad_Lin directly through recommendations from PCI Registered Reports, speeding up transparent, community-driven science. cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca...

A warm welcome to two new PCI RR-friendly journals: Oxford Open Neuroscience (edited by @samgilbert.bsky.social & team) & Cadernos de Linguística @cadlin.bsky.social, edited by Miguel Oliveira, Jr. Full journal entries: rr.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_rr... rr.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_rr...

In Brazilian Portuguese, the type of entity being talked about — a person, an animal, or an object — changes how speakers refer to it again in a story. A study show that this factor drives the choice between saying the noun again, using a pronoun, or leaving it unspoken. doi.org/10.25189/267...

Gabriel do Nascimento Santana maps Abraham Weintraub’s ministerial speech, where lines like “I would put these vagabonds in jail” feed an antidemocratic us versus them story in the Bolsonaro government. #langsky #linguistics doi.org/10.25189/267...

Fernanda A Rezende shows that Brazilian Portuguese verb stress follows trochaic rhythm and verb morphology, not syllable weight, explaining contrasts like bate versus bati. doi.org/10.25189/267... #langsky #linguistics

Strong gender balance, solid international participation, and meaningful contributions from Indigenous scholars mark the recent Diversity, Equity & Inclusion profile of Cadernos de Linguística, a signatory of the C4DISC Statement of Principles. Full report: cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca...

Brazil’s 2019 literacy policy promoted phonics as a simple solution. This study shows that common phonics activities can confuse learners and lead teachers to think that children have reading problems when they do not. The central issue is helping students read with meaning. doi.org/10.25189/267...