Carolina Silva

Carolina Silva serves as an Invited Assistant Professor in the Language Sciences Department at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, NOVA University Lisbon, specializing in linguistic research with a focus on Portuguese language structures and acquisition processes. Her academic affiliation centers on theoretical and experimental linguistics within a major Portuguese research institution.

Education

• Doctorate in Linguistics, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Research Interests: Dr. Silva's work spans second language acquisition, syntax, semantics, and psycholinguistics, with concentrated expertise in pronoun interpretation mechanisms in European Portuguese. She investigates how native children and L2 learners resolve ambiguities in subject pronouns across diverse syntactic contexts including complement and adverbial clauses, addressing core theoretical questions at the syntax-semantics interface while contributing to language processing models and pedagogical applications.

Publication Trends: Her recent research consistently examines pronoun ambiguity resolution in European Portuguese through empirical studies analyzing L1 transfer effects in L2 acquisition, anaphoric/cataphoric interpretation patterns, and clause-specific resolution strategies. These publications demonstrate methodological rigor in experimental linguistics while advancing understanding of cognitive processing mechanisms in both monolingual and bilingual contexts.

Awards

• No scientific awards documented in available sources

Advising and Grants: Current public information does not specify doctoral student supervision activities or externally funded research grants, though her publication record suggests active research engagement requiring institutional support.

Research Infrastructure: While specific laboratory affiliations aren't mentioned, her empirical work on language processing implies access to psycholinguistic research facilities within NOVA University Lisbon's Faculty of Social and Human Sciences.