Alex de Carvalho

Alex de Carvalho is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (École Normale Supérieure - Paris). His research focuses on language acquisition and development, particularly how children use phrasal prosody and function words to infer syntax and word meaning. He employs eye-tracking, EEG, and behavioral methods to study young children's language comprehension and production.

• PhD in Cognitive Sciences, École Normale Supérieure - Paris (2017)
• MA in Cognitive Sciences, École Normale Supérieure - Paris (2014)
• BA in Linguistics/Education, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2011)

His work demonstrates that preschoolers and infants use prosodic cues to resolve syntactic ambiguity, linking this to word learning. He has supervised numerous graduate and undergraduate students, including Axel Barrault and Monica Barbir. Collaborators include John Trueswell (University of Pennsylvania) and Jeff Lidz (University of Maryland).

• Post-Doctoral Grant, Fyssen Fondation (2018-2020)
• Society for Language Development Student Award (2015)
• Paula Menyuk Travel Award (multiple years)
• GDR Neuroscience of Development Travel Award

He co-founded the DEC-Life association and managed partnerships with Paris preschools for child experiments. His teaching includes courses on language acquisition and human experimentation at École Normale Supérieure and Université Paris Descartes.