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Carlos Silva is the project coordinator of Wikimedia Portugal. Formerly, he was a guest Assistant Professor and researcher at the Centre of Linguistics (University of Porto, Portugal) and at the Laboratory of Language Evolution (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland). He concluded his Ph.D. in the field of the phonology of Portuguese-based creoles. His research interests include phonological typology, language change, and computational phonology. He taught Phonology (MA), Romance Linguistics, Varieties of Portuguese, and Techniques of Oral and Written Communication (BA) at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto. He has created and maintains three lexical and phonological databases: Creophon, PtLanka, and GuineLex.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Carlos Rogério Sousa e Silva

Citation names

  • Silva, Carlos

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
D51F-3CA8-11D7
ORCID iD
0000-0002-8052-4271

Email addresses

  • cssilva@letras.up.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • (+351) 966134988 (Personal)

Addresses

  • Via Paromâmica, s/n, 4150-564, Porto, Porto, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Linguistics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Latin Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Ancient Greek (until 1553) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Russian Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2)
German Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Swedish Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2020/09/23 - 2024/02/21
Concluded
 Ciências da Linguagem \ PhD Language Sciences (Doutoramento)
Major in Linguística (Linguistics)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Centro de Linguística, Portugal
"Consonant stability of Portuguese-based creoles" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Approved
2018/09/01 - 2020/11/02
Concluded
 Linguística \ MA Linguistics (Mestrado)
Major in Linguística \ Linguistics
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"Um problema plural, uma proposta singular: a representação fonológica do morfema de plural do português" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 19
2015/09/01 - 2018/07/01
Concluded
 Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas \ BA Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Licenciatura)
Major in Português e Línguas Clássicas\ Portuguese and Classical Languages
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
 19
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/03/01 - 2024/08/31 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2018/09/01 - 2024/02/29 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/09/16 - Current Organic Unit Director Wikimedia Foundation Inc, United States
Wikimedia Portugal, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2020/12/01 - 2023/11/30 Substance and effects of palatal consonants
2020.07466.BD
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Porto Centro de Linguística, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2017/09/01 - 2020/12/31 INTERREG 1368: GEOARPAD «Patrimonio cultural de la Eurorregión Galicia-Norte de Portugal: Valoración e Innovación». Subprojeto “Património Léxico da Gallaecia”.
GEOARPAD2017
Technical development
Universidade do Porto Centro de Linguística, Portugal
 Xunta de Galicia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2021/03/01 - Current EVOPHON: Evolution of phonetics and phonology
186841
PhD Student Fellow
Université de Neuchâtel Institut de Biologie, Switzerland
 Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Ongoing
2018/01/01 - 2018/10/31 O Português é uma Língua Pesada
PGLCP065/207457
Other
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Centro de Linguística, Portugal
Cancelled
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Luís Trigo; Carlos Silva. "Comparing Lexical and Usage Frequencies of Palatal Segments in Portuguese". 2022.
    10.1007/978-3-030-98305-5_33
Book review
  1. Silva, Carlos. "REVIEW Martin Haspelmath. 2019. Can cross-linguistic regularities be explained by constraints on change?". Review of Can cross-linguistic regularities be explained by constraints on change? 10, 1 (2021): 100-107. https://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/elingUP/article/view/10682.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Silva, Carlos; Trigo, Luís. "Frequency, overlap and origins of palatal sonorants in three Iberian languages". Paper presented in 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese, Santiago de Compostela, 2024.
    Published
  2. Silva, Carlos Sousa e; Trigo, Luís. "CreoPhonPt: a collaborative database saving Portuguese creoles from digital obliteration". 2023.
  3. Silva, Carlos; Trigo, Luís. Corresponding author: Silva, Carlos. "Exploring Consonant Frequency in Sri Lanka Portuguese". Paper presented in Second Workshop on Digital Humanities and Natural Language Processing (2nd DHandNLP 2022) co-located with International Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR 2022), Fortaleza, 2022.
    Published
  4. Silva, Carlos; Trigo, Luís. Corresponding author: Silva, Carlos. "Phonetic simplification for automatic syllable division in Sri Lanka Portuguese". Paper presented in PROPOR - International Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese, 2022, Fortaleza, 2022.
    Published
  5. Silva, Carlos. "The representation of Portuguese palatal sonorants through the eyes of Portuguese-based Creoles". Paper presented in 8th School-Conference Language issues: a young scholars perspective, Moscovo, 2021.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Granja, F. B.; Silva, Carlos. "Lexical stability in African and Indian Portuguese-based creoles". Paper presented in 55th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 55), 2024.
  2. Silva, Carlos; Ribeiro, Mariana. "How truthful are Portuguese false diphthongs: an empirical approach". Paper presented in Vienna Workshop on Portuguese Linguistics, 2021.
  3. Silva, Carlos. "A Palatalidade de /¿/ e /¿/: segmento ou autossegmento?". Paper presented in XIV Fórum de Partilha Linguística, 2019.
  4. Silva, Carlos. "A/ as a sponge vowel: the asymmetric behavior of stressed /a/ in European Portuguese". Paper presented in mFil – Manchester Forum in Linguistics, 2019.
  5. Silva, Carlos; Veloso, João. "Diphthongation of stressed /I/ and vowel harmony in european portuguese: fulfilling empty vowels with elements". Paper presented in Elements, State of the Art and Perspectives, 2018.
Journal article
  1. Mendes, Ronaldo; Silva, Carlos. "Social prestige assessment of the languages of Guinea-Bissau by their speakers". Cadernos IS-UP 1 5 (2024): 38-47. https://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/Cadernos-ISUP_1/article/view/14479/12882.
    Open access • Published • 10.21747/2975-8033/cad5a5
  2. Luís Trigo; Carlos Silva; Vera Moitinho De Almeida. "Learning Phonology with Data in the Classroom: Engaging Students in the Creolistic Research Process". International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing (2024): https://doi.org/10.3366/ijhac.2024.0320.
    10.3366/ijhac.2024.0320
  3. Silva, Carlos. "O Sintagma Determinante nas línguas românicas: Emergência, mudança e estrutura da periferia esquerda do SN". Letras 60 (2020): 201-222. http://dx.doi.org/10.5902/2176148543106.
    Open access • 10.5902/2176148543106
  4. Silva, Carlos. "A Gramatização do mirandês. Estudo sobre a Gramaticografia de uma língua minoritária". Linred - Lingüística en la red 17 (2020): 1-15. http://www.linred.es/articulos_pdf/LR-articulo-22022020.pdf.
    Open access • Published
  5. Silva, Carlos. "O lusitano no indo-europeu: uma peça fora do puzzle?". BRATHAIR - REVISTA DE ESTUDOS CELTAS E GERMÂNICOS 19 1 (2019): 204-219. http://ppg.revistas.uema.br/index.php/brathair/article/view/2079.
    Open access • Published
  6. Carlos Sousa e Silva. "A POESIA, A E O DA MITOLOGIA". Boletim de Estudos Clássicos 63 (2018): 29-43. https://doi.org/10.14195/2183-7260_63_4.
    10.14195/2183-7260_63_4
  7. Silva, Carlos Sousa e. "“Chamem a pulúicia!” harmonização vocálica progressiva no português da Madeira". Revista Linguí¿tica 14 2 (2018): 119-138. http://dx.doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2018.v14n2a15725.
    Open access • Published • 10.31513/linguistica.2018.v14n2a15725
  8. Silva, Carlos Sousa. "Poetry, A and O of mythology: from the poetic origins of the myth to the mythification of poetry". Boletim de Estudos Clássicos 63 (2018): 29-43. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-7260_63_2.
    Open access • 10.14195/2183-7260_63_2
  9. Silva, Carlos Sousa e. "Historia Regum Britanniae: Cassibelauno e a prefiguração da Excalibur". Guarecer. Revista Eletrónica de Estudos Medievais 2 (2017): 113-133. http://dx.doi.org/10.21747/21839301/gua2a7.
    Open access • Published • 10.21747/21839301/gua2a7
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Consonant stability of Portuguese-based creoles". PhD, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, 2024. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/157550.
  2. Silva, Carlos. "Um problema plural, uma proposta singular: a representação fonológica do morfema de plural do português". Master, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, 2020. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/129786.
Website
  1. Silva, Carlos. Silva Phon'UP. 2018. https://silvaphon.wordpress.com/.

Other

Dataset
  1. Silva, Carlos; Trigo, Luís. GuineLex: Lexicon and phonology of the languages of Guinea-Bissau. https://github.com/Portophon/GuineLex. 2024.
  2. Trigo, Luís; Silva, Carlos. PtLanka: a dictionary of Sri Lanka Portuguese. https://zenodo.org/record/6406871. 2022.
  3. Silva, Carlos; Moran, Steven. CreoPhonPt: Phonology and lexicon of Portuguese-based creoles. https://zenodo.org/record/7575862. 2022.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/07/19 Closing the loop: integrating students and the community in the Creolistic research workflow DARIAH Annual Event 2024, Workflows: Digital Methods for Reproducible Research Practices in the Arts and Humanities
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/07/02 Contributions of lexicostatistics to the genealogy of Portuguese-based Creoles Annual meeting of the Association of Portuguese and Spanish Lexified Creoles (ACBLPE)
Universidade de São Tomé e Príncipe (São Tomé, São Tomé and Príncipe)
2024/05/22 The stability of manner and place of articulation in the formation of Portuguese-based creoles Leiden Workshop on Creole Languages (WoCL)
University of Leiden (Leiden, Netherlands)
2024/03/12 Automatic measurement of distances between languages using Swadesh lists and big text corpora 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR 2024)
University of Santiago de Compostela (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
2024/01 Variation and change in Guinea-Bissau creole Congreso Internacional de Lenguas Iberorrománicas
University of Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland)
2024/01 Lexical stability in the Indo-Portuguese creoles of Korlai and Daman Congreso Internacional de Lenguas Iberorrománicas
University of Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland)
2023/11 Phonological stability and inventory similarity of Portuguese-based creoles Biennial Conference of the Centre of Linguistics of the University of Porto
University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2023/11 Coda adaptation: from Portuguese to Fá D’Ambô Biennial Conference of the Centre of Linguistics of the University of Porto
University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2023/09 Iberian comparative linguistics in the classroom with digital research methods 44th Annual Conference of the Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies
University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2023/07 CreoPhonPt: a collaborative database saving Portuguese creoles from digital obliteration ADHO Digital Humanities Conference
University of Graz (Graz, Austria)
2023/03 People first: Testing integrated digital research/teaching concepts from the ground up Programming and Data Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
University of Evora (Évora, Portugal)
2023/02 Learning Phonology with data in the classroom: engaging students in the creolistic research process Humanities Going Digital: Teaching, training & research experiences (HUGOD Conference)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/12 Measuring consonant stability in Portuguese-based creoles 14th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT 2022)
University of Texas (Austin) (Austin, United States)
2022/06 Inferring the phonological representation of Portuguese palatals from their distribution Réseau Français de Phonologie (RFP 2022)
University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2022/04 Bringing Dalgado into the digital era: an online corpus of Sri Lanka Portuguese International Congress Dalgado 100
University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/12 Stability drivers in the emergence of Portuguese-based creoles 5th Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology (ESHP5)
University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
2021/11 PtLanka: an online corpus of Sri Lanka Portuguese lexicon and phonology Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS 2021)
Universidade de São Paulo – USP (São Paulo, Brazil)
2021/09/17 Palatals without coronal/dorsal counterparts: the lateral case 50th Poznan Linguistic Meeting (PLM2021)
Poznan University (Poznan, Poland)
2021/06/28 Zero Copula in Portuguese-based Creoles Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics summer meeting 2021
Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics (Paris, France)
2021/03/27 Adaptation of palatal sonorants in the Portuguese-based creoles of Africa and Asia Language issues: a young scholars’ perspective
Institute of Linguistics; Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscovo, Russia)
2021/03/12 Portuguese formal class markers and their relation to gender 24th Ohio State University Congress on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (OSUCHiLL)
Department of Portuguese and Spanish (Ohio, United States)
2020/11 A pluralização dos radicais terminados em /l/ enquanto pista para a representação das laterais em português I PHONOSHUTTLE OPO-LIS – Ponte aérea de Fonologia
Centro de Linguística da Universidade do Porto e de Lisboa (Porto, Portugal)
2020/01 Origin and evolution of the Determiner Phrase in the Romance languages 13ª edição do IJUP
Reitoria da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2019/11 O todo e as partes: tratamento de hipónimos e hiperónimos nas obras lexicais do Norte de Portugal Simpósio do Instituto de Língua Galega
Instituto de Língua Galega (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
2019/08/11 Sobre a representação fonológica do morfema de plural do português XXXV Encontro Nacional da APL - Associação Portuguesa de Linguística
Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2019/02 Stress and weight in Portuguese: married or divorced? 12ª edição do IJUP - Encontro de Jovens Investigadores da Universidade do Porto
Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2018/07 Os plurais em /I/ no PE: a regra ou a exceção? XIII Fórum de Partilha Linguística
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/01 On the progressive vowel harmony in portuguese 11ª Edição do IJUP- Encontro de Jovens Investigadores da Universidade do Porto
Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2017/06 O lusitano do puzzle indo-europeu: em busca dos substratos do português Colóquio em homenagem de Óscar Lopes
Centro de Linguística da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2017/01 O estranho caso da vogal breathy voiced em PE 10ª edição do IJUP - Encontro de Jovens Investigadores da Universidade do Porto
Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2016/11 A vogal breathy voiced e outras caraterísticas fonéticas do português da Madeira Colóquio dos 40 anos do CLUP
Centro de Linguística da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/01/19 - Current Public seminar about creole languages in Academia and Society (2024/01/19)
Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2017/05/05 - 2017/12/07 Jornadas da Sociedade Portuguesa de Retórica (2017/12/05 - 2017/12/07)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/02/01 - Current Varieties of Portuguese / Variedades do Português Ciências da Linguagem (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2024/02/01 - Current Techniques of oral and written communication / Técnicas de Comunicação Oral e Escrita Ciências da Linguagem (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2023/02/01 - Current Romance Linguistics / Linguística Românica Ciências da Linguagem (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2022/09/15 - Current Phonology / Fonologia Linguística (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2019/02/01 - 2020/08/31 Estruturas Fonológicas e Morfológicas do Português Estudos Portugueses (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2018/09/01 - 2020/08/31 Fonologia e Morfologia Ciências da Linguagem (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2024/01/27 - Current Geração Digital (Digital generation), RDP Africa CreoPhonPt: access to data about the Portuguese-based creoles
2024/01/12 - Current Lingua de Todos (Language of Everyone), Antena 2 Portuguese-based creoles (focus on Africa)

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2023/11/01 - Current Lexical stability of Daman and Korlai creoles Fábio Barcellos Granja
Distinctions

Award

2023 Prática Pedegógica Inovadora \ Innovative Pedagogical Practice
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2017 Incentivo UP \ Incentive UP
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2017 Blagadarius (Appreciation for teaching capacities and outcomes)
Fantasy Camp, Belarus

Other distinction

2019 Melhor comunicação oral \ Best talk
Universidade do Porto, Portugal