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Celina Agostinho concluded her Master's in Linguistics in 2014 at the Universidade de Lisboa and her Ph.D. in Cognitive Science and Language on March 10, 2020, at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ("Certidão de Registo de Reconhecimento" from the Universidade de Lisboa, June 16, 2021). In the context of her doctoral research, she completed a research stay at the UCLA Department of Linguistics in 2017. In 2020 and 2021, she was a Visiting Lecturer of Portuguese at the Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST). She is a collaborator at the Center of Linguistics of the University of Lisbon (CLUL: Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa), where she was a post-doctoral researcher in 2022-2023 and where she continues to conduct research in the domain of language acquisition.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Celina Filipa Mendes Agostinho

Citation names

  • Agostinho, Celina

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
C91C-8639-33E4
ORCID iD
0000-0002-9905-9963

Email addresses

  • cfm.agostinho@gmail.com (Professional)
  • celina.agostinho@campus.ul.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Linguistics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Catalan Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Upper intermediate (B2) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2015/01/15 - 2020/03/10
Concluded
 Ciència Cognitiva i Llenguatge/Cognitive Science and Language (Doctorat)
Major in Linguística
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
"The acquisition of the verbal passive in European Portuguese" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Excellent cum laude
2011 - 2014
Concluded
 Linguística/Linguistics (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"The acquisition of control in European Portuguese complement clauses " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 19 valores
2008 - 2011
Concluded
 Tradução/Translation (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
 16 valores
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/01/01 - 2023/06/30 Postdoc (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/09/02 - 2021/12/14 Lecturer (University Teacher) Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau SAR China

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015/12/06 - 2019/12/07 Predoctoral Research Personnel in Training (Becaria FPI: Formación Predoctoral Investigador) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2012/04/02 - 2014/09/30 Research Grantee (Bolseira de Investigação, Project CLAP: PTDC/CLE-LIN/120897/2010) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2011/09/07 - 2012/03/30 Administrative Support for Research (Bolsa de Mérito Social FLUL) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/01/01 - 2023/06/30 Strategic Project UIDB/00214/2020
UIDB/00214/2020
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2018/01/01 - 2019/12/07 DALiV - Development, Acquisition, and Mechanisms of Linguistic Variation
FFI2017-87699-P
PhD Student Fellow
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Centre de Lingüística Teòrica, Spain
 Gobierno de España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Ongoing
2015/12 - 2017/12 La variación en la interfaz léxico-sintaxis (VARINLEXSIN)
BES-2015-071265
PhD Student Fellow
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
2012/04 - 2014/09 CLAP - Completivas na Aquisição do Português (PTDC/CLE-LIN/120897/2010)
BI-CLUL-FLUL- CLAP
Research Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Agostinho, Celina; Gavarró Algueró, Anna. Corresponding author: Agostinho, Celina. "The acquisition of verbal passives by Portuguese-speaking children". In Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2017, edited by Adina Dragomirescu; Alexandru Nicolae; Adnana Boioc; Stefania Costea, 9-28. Amsterdão, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021.
    Published • 10.1075/cilt.355.01ago
  2. Agostinho, Celina; Anna Gavarró. "The Acquisition of Implicit Control in European Portuguese". In New Trends in Language Acquisition Within the Generative Perspective, edited by Cristina Suárez-Gómez; Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, 119-138. Dordrecht: Springer, 2020.
    Published • 10.1007/978-94-024-1932-0_9
  3. Agostinho, Celina. "The acquisition of control in European Portuguese". 2018.
    10.1075/ihll.17.09ago
Conference paper
  1. Santos, A.L.; Généreux, M.; Cardoso, A.; Agostinho, C.; Abalada, S.. "A corpus of European Portuguese child and child-directed speech". Paper presented in Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Reykjavík, 2014.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Agostinho, Celina; Gavarró, Anna; Santos, Ana Lúcia. Corresponding author: Agostinho, Celina. "The acquisition of the verbal passive: The role of verb type". Language Acquisition (2024): 1-22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2024.2331238.
    Open access • Published • 10.1080/10489223.2024.2331238
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Agostinho, Celina. "The Acquisition of the Passive in European Portuguese". PhD, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2020.
  2. Agostinho, Celina. "The Acquisition of Control in European Portuguese Complement Clauses". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, 2014.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/04/19 Passives in the acquisition of EP Seminário CLUL
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/01/20 Semantic and lexical effects in the acquisition of the verbal passive in EP Our ID - Colloquium in Honor of Inês Duarte
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/10/27 A produção de passivas por crianças falantes de Português Europeu: um estudo de corpus (póster) XXXVIII Encontro Nacional da APL
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/04/21 Passive delay: A view from Ibero-Romance Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) 52
University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, WI, United States)
2018/08/30 The comprehension of verbal passives by children acquiring European Portuguese The Romance Turn IX
Universidade de Bucareste (Bucareste, Romania)
2017/12/07 The acquisition of verbal passives by Portuguese-speaking children: Some data from comprehension Going Romance 31
Universidade de Bucareste (Bucareste, Romania)
2017/09/16 Verbal passives in the acquisition of European Portuguese (poster) Passives - A crosslinguistic workshop
Universidade de Viena (Viena, Austria)
2017/09/07 The acquisition of implicit control in European Portuguese: Some facts about comprehension Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA 13)
Universitat de les Illes Balears (Palma de Mallorca, Spain)
2016/04/01 Comprehension of control in obligatory control contexts: Choice of controller by children aged 3 to 5 years (poster) NonFinite Subjects Conference
Universidade de Nantes (Nantes, France)
2015/09/10 Comprehension of control in complement clauses: Choice of controller in obligatory control contexts (poster) 2thGenerative Approachesto Language Acquisition (GALA 12)
Universidade de Nantes (Nantes, France)
2015/06/18 Acquisition of control in European Portuguese Complement clauses: syntax and acquisition.
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras (Lisboa, Portugal)
2015/06/12 The acquisition of control in European Portuguese: Some facts of comprehension Workshop sobre infinitius
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
2015/04/15 The acquisition of control in European Portuguese: Comprehension of complement clauses (poster) Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research XI
Universidade de Utrecht (Utrecht, Netherlands)
2014/09/18 Acquisition of Control in European Portuguese: Some facts about comprehension The Romance Turn VI
Universitat de les Illes Balears (Palma de Mallorca, Spain)
2014/01/31 Compreensão de algumas estruturas de controlo por crianças com desenvolvimento típico e atípico IV Workshop on Linguistics, Language Development and Impairment
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras (Lisboa, Portugal)
2014/01/08 The Acquisition of Control in European Portuguese Complement Clauses Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe XXII (ConSOLE 22)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras (Lisboa, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2016/09/27 - 2016/09/30 The Romance Turn VIII (Organizing Committee) (2016/09/27 - 2016/09/30)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2014/06/27 - 2014/06/27 International Conference on Language Acquisition for Young Researchers (Organizing Committee) (2014/06/27 - 2014/06/27)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2012/05/02 - 2012/05/05 Colóquio Internacional "Revisitar o Mito" (Organizing Committee) (2012/05/02 - 2012/05/05)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2021/09/01 - 2021/12/14 Leitura em Português II / Reading in Portuguese II Leitura em Português II (Bachelor) Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau SAR China
2021/01/11 - 2021/05/18 Português Avançado II / Advanced Portuguese II Português Avançado II (Bachelor) Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau SAR China
2020/09/02 - 2020/12/15 Leitura em Português II / Reading in Portuguese II Leitura em Português II (Bachelor) Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau SAR China
2019/01/07 - 2019/04/12 Lingüística aplicada a les patologies del llenguatge Lingüística aplicada a les patologies del llenguatge (Bachelor) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2016/09/05 - 2016/12/23 Lingüística aplicada a les patologies del llenguatge Lingüística aplicada a les patologies del llenguatge (Bachelor) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Distinctions

Award

2015 Research Award of the Portuguese Association of Linguistics (Prémio de Investigação da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística)
Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, Portugal