Ana Paula Huback
Lecturer in Language (Portuguese)
Ana Paula Huback came to Columbia University in Fall 2010. She completed her M.A. (2003) and her Ph.D. (2007) in Linguistics at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, in Brazil. Her dissertation and thesis focused on Cognitive Linguistics and analyzed how the daily usage of language interferes with linguistic variation and change.
She taught Linguistics in numerous Brazilian universities, until she moved to the USA in 2007, and began teaching Portuguese as a foreign language. Ana Paula Huback is currently developing Portuguese teaching materials and placement tests based on Task-Based Learning and Content-Based Learning. She is also adapting the “Gramática Básica del Estudiante de Español” to the Portuguese language.
Ana Paula Huback has published several papers on linguistics, more specifically, second language acquisition.
Recent Publications:
Irregular plurals in Brazilian Portuguese: an exemplar model approach. Language Variation and Change, 2011: 23.2, p. 1-12.
Huback, Ana Paula. A aquisição de SER e ESTAR no ensino de português como língua estrangeira. Grupo de Estudos da Linguagem (GEL), 2011: v. 8.1, p. 91-107.
Plurais irregulares do português brasileiro: efeitos de frequência. Revista da Associação Brasileira de Linguística (Abralin), 2011: 9.1, p. 11-40.
Forthcoming, 2012. A perda de distinção fonética entre [l] e [u] em fim de sílaba e consequências para a pluralização. Caderno de Letras da Universidade Federal Fluminense.
Forthcoming, 2012. A interferência da frequência em fenômenos linguísticos. Revista Delta.
Forthcoming, 2012. Book Review: Portuguese: A reference grammar, by Sheila M. Ackerling and Rebecca, Jones Kellogg, University of Texas Press, 2011. Hispania.
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