Sydelle de Souza (5C10-9E57-833F)

Curriculum Vitae

Sydelle de Souza

Sydelle is currently a student at the University of Edinburgh where she is reading for the MSc in Psychological Research. She also holds an MSc in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition (Distinction) from the University of Oxford and a BA in Language Sciences with a focus on General and Portuguese Linguistics from the University of Lisbon. She is an Integrated Member (without PhD) at CLUL where she works on experimental projects involving derivational morphology in European Portuguese. Her own research focuses on the acquisition and processing of verb-noun collocations in the L1 and L2 speakers. Sydelle is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of St Catherine's Academic Review and a junior researcher at The Word Lab.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Sydelle de Souza

Citation names

Souza, Sydelle

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 5C10-9E57-833F
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6330-5763

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Linguistics
Social Sciences - Psychology
Social Sciences - Educational Sciences

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English (Mother tongue)
Portuguese	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
German	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)
Hindi	Proficiency (C2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Intermediate (B1)	Proficiency (C2)
French	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)
Marathi	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Elementary (A2)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2021/09/01 - 2022/08/31 Concluded	MSc Psychological Research (Master) Major in Psychology of Language The University of Edinburgh Psychology Department, United Kingdom "What do machines know about 'killing hope'? Identifying Semi-transparent Argument Structures with a Simple Neural Network" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	(DIstinction)
2020/10/05 - 2021/10/05 Concluded	MSc Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition (Master) University of Oxford Department of Education, United Kingdom University of Oxford Saint Catherine's College, United Kingdom "Processing Collocations in the L2: Semantic Transparency and Congruency" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Distinction
2017/09 - 2020/06 Concluded	Ciências da Linguagem (Licenciatura) Major in General and Portuguese Linguistics Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal	17,19
2019/09 - 2020/02 Concluded	Computational Linguistics (ERASMUS+) (Licenciatura) Universität des Saarlandes, Germany
2016 - 2017 Concluded	Curso Anual de Lingua Portuguesa (Outros) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal	17/20

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2020/01 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Linguística, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Linguística, Portugal

Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract	Souza, Sydelle; Alina Villalva. "Root and word-based diminutives in European Portuguese". Paper presented in 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea 2021, Athens, 2021. Published Souza, Sydelle; Alina Villalva; Sobreiro, Iara. Corresponding author: Souza, Sydelle. "Plural Diminutives in European Portuguese: Experimental data from a lexical decision task". Paper presented in XXXVI Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística 2020, 2020. Published
Conference paper	Souza, Sydelle; Alina Villalva; Pinto, Carina. Corresponding author: Souza, Sydelle. "The grammar behind word association tasks". Paper presented in Exling 2020, 2020. 10.36505/exling-2020/11/0021/000436 Souza, Sydelle. "Tutoring EFL Students in Portugal: Rethinking writing center methodology". 2020. 10.36505/exling-2020/11/0019/000434 Souza, Sydelle. "French as a Third Language: Foreign Languages within the Goan Education System". Paper presented in Didlang 2018 Gateways for Foreign Language Didactics, Lisbon, 2018. In press
Conference poster	Alina Villalva; Souza, Sydelle; Pinto, Carina. "Word Associations: Analyzing Activation Pathways". Paper presented in 19th International Morphology Meeting 2020, 2020.
Thesis / Dissertation	Souza, Sydelle. "Processing Collocations in the L2: Semantic Transparency and Congruency". Master, University of Oxford Department of Education, 2021. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:275c38e4-90c5-4136-967e-38ead3b572f2.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2021/12/06	Processing Collocations in the L2: The Role of Semantic Transparency	Bilingual Research Group University of Edinburgh, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
2021/09/15	Processing Collocations in the L2: Semantic Transparency & Congruency	The Word Lab Sessions The Word Lab (Portugal)
2020/09/12	Plural Diminutives in EP: A Lexical Decision Task	The Word Lab Sessions The Word Lab
2020/08/26	10 Simple Rules for Designing an Academic Poster	The Word Lab Sessions The Word Lab (Portugal)
2020/08/05	A Very Brief Introduction to PsyToolkit	The Word Lab Sessions The Word Lab (Portugal)
2020/07/07	Last Semester, Mendeley Saved My Life	The Word Lab Sessions The Word Lab (Lisbon, Portugal)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2021/09 - 2022/07	The 74th Language Lunch @ Edinburgh (2022/03/08) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	The University of Edinburgh School of Informatics, United Kingdom The University of Edinburgh School of Philosophy Psychology and Language Sciences, United Kingdom
2019/04 - 2021/12	The Word Lab Sessions (2019/07 - 2021/12)	The Word Lab, Portugal
2020/12 - 2021/04	Let's Talk About Experimental Morphology! (2021/03/31 - 2021/04/01) Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)	The Word Lab, Portugal
2019/09/01 - 2019/09/13	Protolang 6 (2019/09/09 - 2019/09/13) Conference (Other)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2019 - 2019	ExLing, 10th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics (2019/09/25 - 2019/09/27) Conference (Other)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2020 - 2021	The Oxford-Cambridge Exchange Other	The Oxford-Cambridge Exchange University of Oxford Department of Education, United Kingdom University of Cambridge Faculty of Education, United Kingdom

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2020/11 - 2021/10	Academic Officer, St Catherine's College Middle Common Room Member	University of Oxford Saint Catherine's College, United Kingdom
2020/10 - 2021/10	The Bodleian Libraries Research Discovery User Group Member	University of Oxford Bodleian Libraries, United Kingdom

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2021/04 - Current	St Catherine's Academic Review

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2019 - 2020	Programa do Mentorado	Christopher Bruha
2019 - 2020	WILL Lab Tutor in English for Academic Purposes	Chiharu Kawakami