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Anabela Rato is an Assistant Professor and the Associate Chair of Portuguese Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Toronto. She is also the Chair of the Canadian Association of Teachers of Portuguese (CATPor). Her research focuses on Second Language and Heritage Speech Acquisition, leading projects funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the UofT. ). She holds an MA in English Language, Literature and Culture and a Ph.D. in Language Sciences, from the University of Minho, Portugal. Her research interests include Heritage Language Speech Acquisition, Second Language Speech Learning, and Experimental Phonetics.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Anabela Alves dos Santos Rato

Citation names

  • Rato, Anabela

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
3012-9CEB-774C
ORCID iD
0000-0001-7822-8580

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Linguistics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
German Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2) Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2014/01
Concluded
 Ciências da Linguagem (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas, Portugal
"Cross-language Perception and Production of English vowels by Portuguese Learners: The Effects of Perceptual Training" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Aprovada por unanimidade
2009/11
Concluded
 Língua, Literatura e Cultura Inglesas (Mestrado)
Major in Linguística Inglesa
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas, Portugal
"Interacção Conversacional no Talk Show Televisivo: Institucionalidade e Género em Late Night with Conan O’Brien e The Tonight Show with Jay " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17,00
2004/06
Concluded
 Ensino de Português e de Língua Estrangeira no 3.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico e no Ensino Secundário, nas áreas de especialização de Espanhol ou de Inglês (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"s/ tese" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16,00
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2008 - 2010 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos Humanísticos, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/07/01 - Current Associate Professor (University Teacher) University of Toronto, Canada
2016/07/01 - 2023/06/30 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) University of Toronto, Canada
2014/09/01 - 2016/06/30 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Minho Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas, Portugal
2014 - 2015 Visiting Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Escola Superior de Educação de Fafe, Portugal
2008/09/01 - 2014/08/31 Lecturer (University Teacher) Universidade do Minho Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2010/01/01 - 2014/01/30 Cross-language perception and production of English vowels by Portuguese learners: The effects of perceptual training
SFRH /BD /63541/2009
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/02/01 - Current Production and Perception in L2 speech learning
2022.04013.PTDC
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2022/06/01 - 2024/05/31 When our mouth carries two worlds: The case of heritage speakers of Portuguese in Canada
n/a
Principal investigator
University of Toronto, Canada
 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Ongoing
2019/06/01 - 2022/05/31 It takes a village to raise a child: The role of interlocutor familiarity in monolingual and bilingual acquisition
n/a
Researcher
University of Toronto, Canada
 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Ongoing
2018/05/01 - 2020/04/30 How do we perceive and talk our parents home language? The case of heritage speakers of Azorean Portuguese
n/a
Principal investigator
University of Toronto Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Canada
 University of Toronto Jackman Humanities Institute
Ongoing
2017/09/01 - 2019/12/31 The role of cross-language phonetic similarity and articulatory difficulty in L2 speech learning
n/a
Principal investigator
University of Toronto Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Canada
 University of Toronto Jackman Humanities Institute
Ongoing
2014/09/01 - 2016/08/31 Portuguese as Heritage Language and language change
EXPL/MHC-LIN/0763/2013
Researcher
Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos Humanísticos, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2009/01/01 - 2014/12/31 Perfil Sociológico da Fala Bracarense
PTDC/CLE-LIN/112939/2009
Researcher
Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos Humanísticos, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Rato, Anabela; Vanina Machado. Corresponding author: Rato, Anabela. "Perception and production of English and Portuguese voiceless stops by heritage speakers of Portuguese in Canada". In The Phonetics and Phonology of Heritage Languages. Cambridge University Press, 2022.
    In press
  2. Rato, Anabela; Diana Oliveira. Corresponding author: Rato, Anabela. "Assessing the robustness of L2 phonetic training: A closer look at generalization and retention of learning". In L2 Pronunciation Teaching and Training: Different Approaches. de Gruyter Mounton, 2022.
    In press
  3. Rato, Anabela; Luciana Graça. "O ensino de português como língua adicional, através de uma abordagem pluricêntrica". In Microgeopolítica da língua portuguesa: ações, desafios e perspectivas, 23-36. Boavista Press, 2021.
    Published
  4. Rato, Anabela; Suzi Lima; Natalia Rinaldi. Corresponding author: Rato, Anabela. "The role of linguistics in the additional language university classroom: The case of the undergraduate Portuguese program at the University of Toronto". In Teaching and Learning Portuguese in Canada: Multidisciplinary Contributions to SLA Research and Practice, 101-120. Boavista Press, 2020.
    Published
  5. Rato, Anabela; Patrícia Varanda; Celeste Rodrigues. Corresponding author: Rato, Anabela. "Stressed vowels of European Portuguese in spontaneous speech". In Studies on Variation in Portuguese - Issues on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 23-47. John Benjamins, 2017.
    Published
  6. Rato, Anabela; Angélica Carlet. "Identification and discrimination of initial voiceless stops by Catalan and Portuguese learners of English: the role of formal instruction and L2 exposure". In Phonology in Protolanguage and Interlanguage, 57-67. Equinox, 2017.
    Published
  7. Rato, Anabela; Andreia Schurt Rauber; Denise Kluge; Giane Santos. Corresponding author: Rato, Anabela. "Designing speech perception tasks with TP". In Investigating English pronunciation: Trends and directions, 295-313. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
    Published
Conference abstract
  1. Rato, Anabela; Andreia Schurt Rauber. Corresponding author: Rato, Anabela. "The Effects of Perceptual Training on the Production of English Vowel Contrasts by Portuguese Learners". Paper presented in ICPhS 2015, 2015.
    Published
  2. Anabela Rato; Angelica Carlet. "Non-native perception of English voiceless stops". Paper presented in International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech 2015, 2015.
    Published
  3. Anabela Rato; Andreia Schurt Rauber; Denise Kluge; Giane Santos. Corresponding author: Andreia Schurt Rauber. "TP 3.1 Software: A tool for designing audio, visual, and audiovisual perceptual training tasks and perception tests". Paper presented in INTERSPEECH 2013, 2013.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Macedo, Ana Gabriela; Keating, Maria Eduarda; Rato, Anabela; Cóloquio de Outono, 9, Braga, 2007. "IX Colóquio de Outono : censura e inter/dito - censorship and inter/diction". 2008.
Journal article
  1. Rato, Anabela; Chao Zhou. Corresponding author: Chao Zhou. "Can the difference between the target forms and the deviant production of L2 Portuguese /l/ and /r/ be perceptually recognized?". Second Language Research (2022):
    Under revision
  2. Martha Black; Rato, Anabela; Yasaman Rafat. Corresponding author: Martha Black. "Effect of perceptual training without feedback on bilingual speech perception: Evidence from approximant-stop discrimination in Spanish-dominant and English-dominant late bilinguals". Language and Speech (2022):
    Accepted
  3. Rato, Anabela; Luciana Graça. "As manifestações linguísticas e culturais nas aulas de português como língua adicional para a construção de uma cidadania global". Linguagem e Ensino 24 2 (2021): 289-301. https://periodicos.ufpel.edu.br/ojs2/index.php/rle/article/view/19481.
    Open access • Published
  4. Anabela Alves dos Santos Rato; Angélica Carlet. "Second language perception of English vowels by Portuguese learners: The effect of stimulus type". Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies (2020): https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2020v73n3p205.
    10.5007/2175-8026.2020v73n3p205
  5. Anabela Rato; Suzi Lima. "Introduction". Diacrítica (2019): https://doi.org/10.21814/diacritica.484.
    10.21814/diacritica.484
  6. Rato, Anabela; Diana Oliveira. Corresponding author: Diana Oliveira. "Assimilação perceptiva das oclusivas orais do português europeu L2 por falantes nativos de cantonês". Diacrítica 32 3 (2019): 133-156. http://diacritica.ilch.uminho.pt/index.php/dia/article/view/435/59.
    Open access • Published
  7. Rato, Anabela. "Perceptual categorization of English vowels by native European Portuguese speakers". Revista Linguí¿tica 14 2 (2018): 61-80. http://dx.doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2018.v14n2a17542.
    10.31513/linguistica.2018.v14n2a17542
  8. Soares, Ana Paula; Alvaro Iriarte; José João de Almeida; Alberto Simoes; Ana Costa; João Machado; Patricia França; et al. Corresponding author: Soares, Ana Paula. "Procura-PALavras (P-PAL): A web-based interface for a new European Portuguese lexical database". Behavior Research Methods 50 4 (2018): 1461-1481. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-38143-010.
    Published
  9. Flores, Cristina; Rinke, Esther; Rato, Anabela. Corresponding author: Flores, Cristina. "Comparing the outcomes of early and late acquisition of European Portuguese: An analysis of morpho-syntactic and phonetic performance". Heritage Language Journal 14 2 (2017): 124-149.
    Published
  10. Rato, Anabela; Angélica Carlet; Kivistö-de Souza, Hanna; Izabela Anna Julkowska. Corresponding author: Kivistö-de Souza, Hanna. "Vowel inventory size matters: Assessing cue-weighting in L2 vowel perception". Ilha do Desterro – Investigating Second Language Speech 70 3 (2017): 33-46. https://www.scielo.br/j/ides/a/BqB9PC3SdS5gwJhS53xR84q/?lang=en.
    Open access • Published
  11. Daniela Valente; Ana Paula Soares; Comesaña, Montserrat; Rato, Anabela. Corresponding author: Daniela Valente. "Does phonological overlap of cognate words modulate cognate acquisition and processing in developing and skilled readers". Language Acquisition 24 4 (2017): 438-453.
    Published
  12. Patrícia Varanda; Barroso, Henrique; Rato, Anabela. Corresponding author: Patrícia Varanda. "Estudo Acústico de /a/ acentuado na fala bracarense.". Revista Portuguesa de Humanidades - Estudos Linguísticos 20 101 (2017): 136.
    Published
  13. Flores, Cristina; Rato, Anabela. "Global Accent in the Portuguese Speech of Heritage Returnees". Heritage Language Journal 13 2 (2016): 161-183. http://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/handle/1822/42473.
    Open access • Published
  14. Yang,Shu; Rato, Anabela; Flores, Cristina. Corresponding author: Yang,Shu. "Perceção das consoantes oclusivas de Português L2 sob a influência de Mandarim L". Diacrítica - série ciências da linguagem 29 1 (2015): 61-94. http://www.scielo.mec.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0807-89672015000100003.
    Open access • Published
  15. Rato, Anabela; Flores, Cristina; Diana Oliveira; Daniela Neves. Corresponding author: Rato, Anabela. "A competência fonológica de falantes bilingues luso-alemães: um estudo sobre sotaque global, compreensibilidade e inteligibilidade da sua língua de herança". Revista Diacrítica - série ciências da linguagem 29 1 (2015): 297-326.
    Open access • Published
  16. Rato, Anabela; Rauber,Andréia Schurt; Soares,Letícia Piske; Lucas,Liane Regio. Corresponding author: Rato, Anabela. "Challenges in the perception and production of English front vowels by native speakers of European Portuguese". Diacrítica - série ciências da linguagem 28 1 (2014): 137-155.
    Open access • Published
  17. Anabela Rato. ". Effects of Perceptual Training on the Identification of English Vowels by Native Speakers of European Portuguese". Concordia Working Papers in Applied Linguistics 5 (2014): 529-546.
    Published
  18. Rato, Anabela; Rauber,Andréia Schurt; Denise Kluge; Giane Santos. Corresponding author: Giane Santos. "TP (v. 3.1): Una herramienta para experimentos de percepción". Estudios de Fonética Experimental XXII (2013): 335-366. https://www.ub.edu/journalofexperimentalphonetics/pdf-articles/XXII-14-GRodrigesdosSantos.pdf.
    Published
  19. Rato, Anabela; Rauber,Andréia Schurt; Denise Kluge; Giane Santos. "Percepção de sons de língua estrangeira: questões metodológicas e o uso dos aplicativos Praat e TP". Revista Letras 88 (2013): 171-188. https://revistas.ufpr.br/letras/article/view/34276.
    Published
  20. Rato, Anabela; Rauber,Andréia Schurt; Ana Lúcia Silva. Corresponding author: Rauber,Andréia Schurt. "Percepção e produção de vogais anteriores do inglês por falantes nativos de mandarim". Diacrítica -– série ciências da linguagem 24 1 (2010): 308-325. http://cehum.ilch.uminho.pt/cehum/static/publications/diacritica24-1.pdf.
    Open access • Published
Journal issue
  1. Rato, Anabela; Suzi Lima. "Experimental Portuguese Linguistics". Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics (2022):
    In press • Coeditor
  2. Rato, Anabela; Suzi Lima. "Linguística Experimental e Variedades do Português". Revista Diacrítica 33 2 (2019):
    Published • Coeditor
  3. Rato, Anabela; Suzi Lima. "Estudos Experimentais sobre o Português". Revista Linguística 2 14 (2018):
    Published • Coeditor
Online resource
  1. Rato, Anabela; Andreia Schurt Rauber; Denise Kluge; Giane Santos. TP (Version 3.1). 2012. http://www.worken.com.br/tp.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Rato, Anabela Alves dos Santos. "Cross-language perception and production of English vowels by Portuguese learners : the effects of perceptual training". PhD, Universidade do Minho, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/28100.
  2. Rato, Anabela Alves dos Santos. "Interacção conversacional do Talk Show televisivo: institucionalidade e género nas entrevistas de Late Night with Conan O'Brien e The Tonight Show with Jay Leno". Master, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/23080.
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2022/02/01 - Current The properties of bare nouns in a Spanish-Brazilian Portuguese contact setting
Co-supervisor
University of Toronto, Canada
2021/09/01 - Current A metacognição e as novas ecologias de aprendizagem para o desenvolvimento da competência fonológica em L2 em ambiente b-learning
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2018/09 - Current L2 acquisition of Spanish rhotics: Perception and Production Training
Co-supervisor
University of Toronto, Canada
2017/09/01 - Current The role of vowel reduction in the perception and production of English lexical stress by Spanish and Portuguese speakers
Supervisor
University of Toronto, Canada
2017/09/01 - Current Preference for passive voice in monolingual and bilingual children
Co-supervisor
University of Toronto, Canada
2017/09/01 - Current The Spanish Prosody in the Uruguayan-Brazilian border: Cross-generational and Social Variation
Co-supervisor
University of Toronto, Canada
2016/09/01 - Current A reflection on the Umbundo Corpus Planning for the Angolan Education System: Towards the harmonization of the Catholic and Protestant orthographies
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2016/09/01 - 2021/08/31 Les effets d'un entraînement perceptif prosodique sur la perception de trois propriétés prosodiques du syntagme accentual en français language seconde
Co-supervisor
University of Toronto, Canada
2017/09/01 - 2021/04/26 L2 speech learning of European Portuguese /l/ and /¿/ by L1-Mandarin learners: Experimental evidence and theoretical modelling
Co-supervisor
2016/09/01 - 2020/10/20 The Bidirectional Acquisition of Oral and Nasal Gestural Timing in L2 Brazilian Portuguese and Rioplatense Spanish Nasal Structures
Co-supervisor
University of Toronto, Canada
2016/01/01 - 2020/09/15 Auditory selective attention and performance in high variability phonetic training: The perception of Portuguese stops by Chinese L2 learners
Supervisor
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2015/09/01 - 2017/04/20 Perception and production of English /h/: the case of native Portuguese speakers of English as a Foreign Language
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2014/09/01 - 2016/02/05 Perceção e produção de sons consonânticos do português europeu por aprendentes chineses
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2013/09/01 - 2015/10/23 Estudo acústico de /a/ acentuado na fala bracarense: potenciais aplicações
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2013/09/01 - 2015/09/07 Estudo da perceção de vogais e ditongos orais de alunos de PLNM, falantes de Inglês L1
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2012/09/01 - 2014/09/24 Perceção das Consoantes Oclusivas de Português L2 sob a Influência de Mandarim L1
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Minho, Portugal