João Soares Gonçalves de Matos (BC13-511F-1D22)

Curriculum Vitae

João Soares Gonçalves de Matos

João de Matos is a Ph.D. grant holder in Linguistics (Psycholinguistics) at NOVA University Lisbon (UI/BD/152814/2022). He completed his MA in Language Sciences (Linguistics) at NOVA University Lisbon in October 2020 with a dissertation in the field of Experimental Psycholinguistics about the processing of grammatical gender features in European Portuguese supervised by professors Susana Correia and Matilde Gonçalves. In 2021, his dissertation won the NOVA FCSH 2020-2021 Gender Equality and Diversity Award and the Portuguese Association of Linguistics / Maria Helena Mira Mateus 2021 Research Award. His main research interests are Experimental Psycholinguistics and Linguistic Processing. At the moment, his main research topic is the interaction between Language, Gender, and Human Cognition.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: João Soares Gonçalves de Matos

Citation names

Matos, João de

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: BC13-511F-1D22
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2042-6669

Email addresses

joaogmatos@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)

Websites

https://clunl.fcsh.unl.pt/en/team/matos-joao-de-doutorando/ (Scholar)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Linguistics

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian	Elementary (A2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Elementary (A2)	Upper intermediate (B2)
German	Elementary (A2)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)
French	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2021/09/20 - 2025/09 Ongoing	Ph.D. in Linguistics (Doutoramento) Major in Psycholinguistics Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal "Mapeamento de subsespecificações semânticas nos Masculinos Genéricos do PE" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2020/10 Concluded	MA Degree in Language Sciences (Mestrado) Major in Linguistics Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal "Poderá uma Língua Natural ser Sexista? Avaliação do Impacto de Informação Gramatical e de Estereótipos de Género na Compreensão de Enunciados com Sujeitos Masculinos Genéricos em Português Europeu" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	19 / 20
2016/06 Concluded	Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Licenciatura) Major in English and German Studies Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal	15 / 20
2015/03 - 2015/07 Concluded	Erasmus Fellow (Bachelor) Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/06 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Linguística, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2020/09 - 2022/12	Teacher of Portuguese as a Foreign Language	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

2020/09 - 2020/12	Teacher of Portuguese as a Foreign Language	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2022/02 - Current	Mapeamento de subsespecificações semânticas nos Masculinos Genéricos do PE UI/BD/152814/2022 PhD Student Fellow Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Linguística, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Book	Matos, João de. Poderá uma língua natural ser sexista?. Lisboa: Colibri. 2023. In press
Conference abstract	Matos, João de; Correia, Susana; Gonçalves, Matilde ; Luegi, Paula. "Interpretation of Masculine Generics in European Portuguese". Paper presented in Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Paris, 2021.
Conference poster	Matos, João de; Correia, Susana; Gonçalves, Matilde ; Luegi, Paula. "Estereótipos de Género em Nomes de Categorias Sociais do Português Europeu". Paper presented in XXXVI Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, 2020.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/07	Generic masculine bias in European Portuguese nouns: evidence from a sentence evaluation paradigm	Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender (Düsseldorf, Germany)
2021/10	Interpretação de Masculinos Genéricos em PE: Resultados de um Estudo Experimental	XXXVII Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística Associação Portuguesa de Linguística (Portugal)
2021/09	Interpretation of Masculine Generics in European Portuguese	Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) (Paris, France)
2021/06	Poderá uma Língua Natural ser Sexista?	Encontro sobre Igualdade de Género e Diversidade no Ensino Superior Incentivo à Publicação \| Igualdade de Género e Diversidade, NOVA FCSH 2020-2021 (Lisboa, Portugal)
2020/10	Estereótipos de Género em Nomes de Categorias Sociais do Português Europeu	XXXVI Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística Associação Portuguesa de Linguística (Portugal)
2017/11	Non-Binary Gender Markers in Written European Portuguese: Some Remarks on the Social Dimension of Portuguese Spelling	12th Forum for Linguistic Sharing Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2023/06/30 - 2023/07/01	XVII Forum for Linguistic Sharing (2023) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2024/02 - Current	Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification Seminar	Stanford Online & DeepLearning.AI Coursera Inc, United States
2023/10/16 - Current	Participation in a round table organized by elingUP Journal, a students' e-journal of Linguistics from the University of Porto Round table	elingUP Preview
2023/04/18 - 2023/04/20	Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research 2023 Workshop	Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research 2023
2022/11/30 - 2022/11/30	Participation in a round table about gender-fair language use Round table	DiverGenteS - ações afirmativas pela diversidade gentopia - Associação para a Diversidade e Igualdade de Género, Portugal
2022/07/16 - 2022/07/29	Introduction to Neurolinguistics (by Prof. Yosef Grodzinsky) Seminar	4th Crete Summer School of Linguistics University of Crete, Greece
2022/07/16 - 2022/07/29	Language, Gender, and Sexuality (by Prof. Ivy Sichel) Seminar	4th Crete Summer School of Linguistics University of Crete, Greece
2022/07/16 - 2022/07/29	Evolution and Language (by Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa) Seminar	4th Crete Summer School of Linguistics University of Crete, Greece
2022/07/04 - 2022/07/08	International standard for the representation of open lexical data (by Prof. Laurent Romary) Seminar	Lisbon Summer School in Linguistics 2022 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Linguística, Portugal
2022/07/04 - 2022/07/08	L2 speech learning: The effects of phonetic training (by Prof. Anabela Rato) Seminar	Lisbon Summer School in Linguistics 2022 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Linguística, Portugal
2022/07/04 - 2022/07/08	Experimental and computational approaches to lexicon and morphology (by Prof. João Veríssimo) Seminar	Lisbon Summer School in Linguistics 2022 Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Linguística, Portugal
2021/09 - 2021/12	Data Analysis and Statistics Using R (by Dr. Sérgio Moreira) Seminar	Data Analysis and Statistics Using R Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2020/04 - 2020/04	Introduction to Data Science using Python Seminar	HackatHOME 2.0 Universidade Católica Portuguesa Unidade de Investigação em Gestão e Economia, Portugal
2017/09 - 2017/09	Advanced Praat Seminar	Summer Training on Experimental Methods Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Linguística, Portugal
2017/09 - 2017/09	ELAN Seminar	Summer Training on Experimental Methods Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Linguística, Portugal
2016/07 - 2016/07	Issues on the Acquisition of Pronouns (by Dr. Maria Lobo and Dr. Ana Madeira) Seminar	Lisbon Summer School and Graduate Conference in Linguistics Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2016/07 - 2016/07	The Psycholinguistics of Grammar (by Dr. Colin Phillips) Seminar	Lisbon Summer School and Graduate Conference in Linguistics Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2016/03 - 2016/03	Praat and acoustic analysis (by Dr. Sónia Frota ) Seminar	Spring Training on Experimental Methods Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Linguística, Portugal
2016/03 - 2016/03	Phon and phonetic transcription (by Dr. Susana Correia) Seminar	Spring Training on Experimental Methods Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Linguística, Portugal

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2021 - Current	Associação Portuguesa de Linguística (Portuguese Linguistics Association)	Sócio

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2023/03/22 - 2023/03/22	Psycholinguistics	BA (Licenciatura)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

	Activity description	Newspaper / Forum
2022/06	Interview in a report about gender-fair language use in Portugal: https://www.publico.pt/2022/06/22/p3/noticia/linguagem-inclusiva-nao-capricho-igualdade-respeito-2010431	Público
2021/12	Interview in a report about identity politics and gender-fair language use in Portuguese cultural institutions: https://www.publico.pt/2021/12/24/culturaipsilon/noticia/ano-politicas-identidade-entraram-porta-principal-1989537	Público

Distinctions

Award

2021	NOVA FCSH 2020-2021 Gender Equality and Diversity Award Encontro sobre Igualdade de Género e Diversidade no Ensino Superior, Portugal
2021	Portuguese Association of Linguistics / Maria Helena Mira Mateus 2021 Research Award Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, Portugal