http://hdl.handle.net/11422/19 Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:39:18 GMT 2026-07-19T01:39:18Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29714 Title: Diferenças na aquisição e processamento de nomes concretos e abstratos por crianças brasileiras de 2 anos Author(s)/Inventor(s): Bogo, Olívia Fernandes Advisor: França, Aniela Improta Abstract: Cognitive processes are fundamentally abstract and arise from the interplay of biological, psychological, and environmental factors. This dissertation examines how such processes unfold in language acquisition, from early perceptual stages to the formation of conceptual representations. We start from the hypothesis that access to mental representations is inherently abstract, regardless of conceptual type, and investigate how this is reflected in the acquisition of concrete versus abstract words. Stimulus selection involved two preregistration steps via Google Forms: (i) a Brazilian Portuguese CDI readaptation completed by 56 caregivers of children aged 24 to 30 months (lexical comprehension and production), and (ii) concreteness/abstractness ratings provided by 445 adult native speakers. We then conducted an online eye-tracking control experiment, via an MIT platform named Lookit, with 53 adults and a child experiment with 52 children (24–30 months). We tested (i) differences in access and processing of concrete versus abstract items, (ii) relative interest in each item type, and (iii) the accuracy of lexical access. Findings show that adults and children access and interpret concrete and abstract words differently, indicating that conceptual nature modulates acquisition, access, and linguistic processing. Beyond underscoring the study’s transdisciplinary scope and its relevance to the Brazilian context, this work introduces the innovative use of Lookit and offers comparative parameters for research involving populations at risk for neurodevelopmental disorders, informing the design of diagnostic tools and early interventions across clinical and educational settings. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Tese Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29714 2025-12-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29712 Title: Uma leitura sobre os modos de contar de Riobaldo: articulações com o contar em psicanálise Author(s)/Inventor(s): Moraes, Maria Cecília de Lima Sousa de Advisor: Silva, Flávia Trocoli Xavier da Abstract: This dissertation proposes an investigation about Riobaldo's ways of telling in Grande Sertão: Veredas, constructed, in this reading, through the intersection of the fields of literature and psychoanalysis. An initial question guides and sustains our reading journey: What leads Riobaldo to tell his story to a specific interlocutor throughout the entire narrative? With this, we launch ourselves to read a narrative structure that erupts in a dialogical frame, since there are two characters on the scene, but who are not in a dialogue. Complex as it is, the monologue does not entirely encompass the specificity of Riobaldo’s speech, for the presence of the interlocutor is essential for him to be able to address the spoken word. Recognizing in Guimarães Rosa’s novel such a configuration of speech and listening emerges as an invitation to engage in articulations with psychoanalysis. Our hypothesis is that certain psychoanalytic notions—free association, transference, transfer love, and the subject supposed to know—are present within the structure of Riobaldo’s speech, leading him to tell and (re)write his own story. The theoretical framework adopted in this study is interdisciplinary, contemplating theorists from literary criticism, narratology, and Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. During the reading, we analyze aspects of the character's storytelling experience that, as it flows, approaches the edges of analytical experience. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Tese Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29712 2025-12-11T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29710 Title: Sobre a prática e teoria da música na antiguidade e a sua consideração na reconstituição do Estásimo I versos 338-344 de Orestes de Eurípides Author(s)/Inventor(s): Brivio, Luciana Advisor: Guggenberger, Rainer Abstract: This work is an inquiry of the Stasimon I of the verses 338-344 of the tragedy Orestes (408 B.C.) by Euripides, based on the notion of mousikḗ and the trajectory of music theory of ancient Greek music. Each verse of the papyrus fragment features, in the upper part, the notation of the vocal musical notes, and in the lower half, the Greek text with the notes for the instruments, in alphabetical notation. The verses and the notes are analyzed with the aim of suggesting a possible reconstruction of the first Stasimon. The dialogue between the reconstructed text and ancient music is triggered, from a theoretical point of view, mainly by the concepts of Donald J. Grout, Claude Palisca, Stefan Hagel, Aires Manuel Rodeia dos Reis Pereira, Théodore Reinach, and Martin L. West, in order to understand the type of the musical regarding the fragment of the tragedy in question. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Dissertação Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29710 2025-10-23T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29709 Title: Corpos em movimento, a arte que tece a história: uma leitura de Lueji. O nascimento de um império, de Pepetela Author(s)/Inventor(s): Antunes, Maria Julia da Paixão Advisor: Teixeira, Vanessa Ribeiro Abstract: This research proposes to investigate, through a reading of the novel Lueji, o nascimento de um império (2015a), by the Angolan writer Pepetela, the manifestation of the body-narrator and the temporal conception addressed in the work. The novel, starring Lueji and Lu, explores the imbrication between the past and the future and stages epistemologies originating from the body. Separated by at least four hundred years, the narrative is structured, in parallel, by two distinct chronological times: the 15th century, in the Lunda empire, and the 20th century, in the capital Luanda. Within this perspective, the concepts of tempo espiralar and oralitura, terms coined by Leda Maria Martins (2002; 2023), are configured as keys to reading the novel. In this context, the research also analyzes the fictional exercise proposed by Pepetela, which seeks to fill the gaps resulting from historical documents about the life of the foundress of the former Lunda Empire, since her trajectory is manifested only in oral tradition. Through a critical reading of the novel, supported by the studies of Walter Benjamin (1984; 1987) and Saidiya Hartman (2020), this research aims to affirm the legitimacy of oral traditions as legitimate forms of knowledge transmission, questioning the erasure of ancestral African epistemologies. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Dissertação Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29709 2026-02-09T00:00:00Z