This paper focuses on the perception and production of the English alveolar stops (/t/ and /d/) in syllable coda by Brazilian learners of English. In the production test, the participants read a list of English sentences containing alveolar stops in word-final position. The preceding and following phonological contexts were controlled, so that the effect of context on the production of the alve...

PURPOSE To compare clinical trials published in Brazilian journals of ophthalmology and in foreign journals of ophthalmology with respect to the number of citations and the quality of reporting [by applying the Consolidated Standards for Reporting Trials (CONSORT) statement writing standards]. METHODS The sample of this systematic review comprised the two Brazilian journals of ophthalmology i...

Can you identify a single colleague who has not had a manuscript returned with the comment ‘‘needs to be reviewed by a native English speaker’’? Many researchers receive this response even after translation or revision by an official translator or a native English-speaking coauthor. Over the past four years, while conducting my doctoral, and now my postdoctoral, work here in Brazil, I have been...

Braz J Cardiovasc Surg | Rev Bras Cir Cardiovasc year to complete its 30th birthday, the Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery (BJCVS) brings great news to its readers. As I advanced in the last edition, from now on the journal will be published only in English. This covers not only articles, but all content, from editorial to the ads. We are taking a historic step towards increasing our ...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of the present study was to translate and perform a cross-cultural adaptation of Manchester Orofacial Pain Disability Scale to the Portuguese language. MATERIAL AND METHODS A synthesis of two independent translations done by bilingual translators whose mother tongue was the Portuguese language began the process of translation. From the synthesis of the translated versio...

Speech processing is a data-driven technology that relies on public corpora and associated resources. In contrast to languages such as English, there are few resources for Brazilian Portuguese (BP). This work describes efforts toward decreasing such gap and presents systems for speech recognition in BP using two public corpora: Spoltech and OGI-22. The following resources are made available: HT...

Recently, many projects have been proposed aiming at automatically transforming the multilingual information available on parallel texts into linguistic knowledge useful for machine translation. This paper describes an ongoing PhD project in which the main goal is to automatically induce transfer rules and bilingual dictionaries from part-of-speech tagged and lexically aligned parallel corpora....

Mr. Editor, As the authors of the article “Translation, cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the vitiligo-specific health-related quality of life instrument (VitiQoL) into Brazilian Portuguese”, we would like to publish the translated version of VitiQol in Portuguese (Chart 1 and 2).1 This instrument has only been published in English, and we have been contacted by other health professio...

This paper presents the Copa 2014 FrameNet Brasil software (C-14/FN-Br): a frame-based trilingual electronic dictionary covering the domains of Football, Tourism and the World Cup. The dictionary relies on the infrastructure of FrameNet and is meant to be used by tourists, journalists and the staff involved in receiving foreign visitors. Vocabulary from the three domains is made available in En...