Roberto G. de Almeida, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Researcher, CRIR - Constance-Lethbridge Rehabilitation Centre of the CIUSSS COIM
Phone: 514 848-2424 # 2232
Fax: 514 848-4545
Email: [email protected]
Education
- B.A., Social Communication, Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1983
- M.Sc., Linguistics (Psycholinguistics), University of Campinas, Campinas SP, Brazil, 1991
- Ph.D., Psychology (Cognitive Psychology), Rutgers University NJ, USA, 1999
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Linguistics, University of Alberta, Edmonton AL, 1999
Research interests
Investigation of lexical semantic representation; aphasic syndrome; activities on language and semantic memory dysfunctions
Recent publications
Pollatsek, A., Drieghe, D., Stockall, L. & de Almeida, R.G. (2010). The interpretation of ambiguous trimorphemic words in sentence context. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 17(1), 88-94.
Manouilidou, C. & de Almeida, R.G. (2009). Canonicity in argument realization and verb semantic deficits in Alzheimer’s disease. In S. Featherston & S. Winkler (Eds.), Fruits of Empirical Linguistics I (pp. 123-150). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Manouilidou, C., de Almeida, R.G., Schwartz, G. & Nair, N.P.V. (2009). Thematic roles in Alzheimer’s disease: Hierarchy violations in psychological predicates. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 22(2), 167-186.
de Almeida, R.G. & Dwivedi, V.D. (2008). Coercion without lexical decomposition: Type-shifting effects revisited. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 53(2/3), 301-328.
Research orientation
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Research topic
Research Site
CRIR – Lethbridge-Layton-Mackay Rehabilitation Centre (Constance-Lethbridge Site) of the CIUSSS WCM
University Affiliation
