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  1. New Digital Workflow for the Use of a Modified Stimulating Palatal Plate in Infants with Down Syndrome

    Article • Dentistry Journal, January 2026, MDPI AG

    Prof Sonia Frota

  2. Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy of a Classroom-Based Prosodic Training Program for Infants and Toddlers

    Article • Education Sciences, October 2025, MDPI AG

    Prof Sonia Frota

  3. Early Perception of Intonation in Down Syndrome: Implications for Language Intervention

    Article • European Journal of Investigation in Health Psychology and Education, September 2025, MDPI AG

    Prof Sonia Frota

  4. <strong>Early perception of intonation in Portuguese Sign language: A preliminary study using eye-tracking</strong>

    Article • Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, August 2025, Open Library of the Humanities

    Prof Sonia Frota

  5. English-Learning Infants’ Developing Sensitivity to Intonation Contours

    Article • Languages, June 2025, MDPI AG

    Prof Sonia Frota

  6. Links Between Executive Functions and Decoding Skills in a Semitransparent Orthography: A Longitudinal Study from Kindergarten to First Grade

    Article • European Journal of Investigation in Health Psychology and Education, January 2025, MDPI AG

    Prof Sonia Frota

  7. “Talking heads” in Portuguese sign and spoken languages

    Article • Language and Cognition, January 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Prof Sonia Frota

  8. Perceived Infant Discomfort Linked to Lower Maternal Oral Health Quality of Life: Results from a Cross-Sectional Study

    Article • Journal of Clinical Medicine, October 2024, MDPI AG

    Prof Sonia Frota

  9. Unfolding Prosody Guides the Development of Word Segmentation

    Article • Languages, September 2024, MDPI AG

    Prof Sonia Frota

  10. Serious Games for Developing Social Skills in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review

    Article • Healthcare, February 2024, MDPI AG

    Prof Sonia Frota

  11. Aquisição da Prosódia no Português

    Article • August 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Sonia Frota

  12. Executive Functions and Language Skills in Preschool Children: The Unique Contribution of Verbal Working Memory and Cognitive Flexibility

    Article • Brain Sciences, March 2023, MDPI AG

    Prof Sonia Frota

  13. Editorial: Language across neurodevelopmental disorders

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2023, Frontiers

    Prof Sonia Frota

  14. Early predictors of language outcomes in Down syndrome: A mini-review

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, September 2022, Frontiers

    Prof Sonia Frota

  15. Amplitude envelope modulations across languages reflect prosody

    Article • May 2022, International Speech Communication Association

    Prof Sonia Frota

  16. Auditory and visual cues in face-masked infant-directed speech

    Article • May 2022, International Speech Communication Association

    Prof Sonia Frota

  17. Early Prosodic Development predicts Lexical Development in typical and atypical language acquisition

    Article • May 2022, International Speech Communication Association

    Prof Sonia Frota

  18. Early Word Segmentation Behind the Mask

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, May 2022, Frontiers

    Prof Sonia Frota

  19. Guinea-Bissau Portuguese: What the intonation of yes-no question shows about this variety

    Article • DELTA Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, January 2022, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Prof Sonia Frota

  20. Speech Prosody 2022

    Article • January 2022, International Speech Communication Association

    Prof Sonia Frota

  21. Português Guineense e Português Europeu: um estudo preliminar sobre a percepção das suas diferenças entoacionais

    Article • Revista do GEL, December 2021, Grupo de Estudos Linguisticos do Estado de Sao Paulo

    Prof Sonia Frota

  22. (Dys)Prosody in Parkinson’s Disease: Effects of Medication and Disease Duration on Intonation and Prosodic Phrasing

    Article • Brain Sciences, August 2021, MDPI AG

    Prof Sonia Frota

  23. Communicative gestures in 7–12‐month infants: A phylogenetic comparative approach

    Article • Infant and Child Development, August 2021, Wiley

    Prof Sonia Frota

  24. Early Visual Attention Abilities and Audiovisual Speech Processing in 5–7 Month-Old Down Syndrome and Typically Developing Infants

    Article • Brain Sciences, July 2021, MDPI AG

    Prof Sonia Frota

  25. European Portuguese-Learning Infants Look Longer at Iambic Stress: New Data on Language Specificity in Early Stress Perception

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, August 2020, Frontiers

    Prof Sonia Frota

  26. Looking for the edge: emerging segmentation abilities in atypical development

    Article • May 2020, International Speech Communication Association

    Prof Sonia Frota

  27. Eyes or mouth? Exploring eye gaze patterns and their relation with early stress perception in European Portuguese

    Article • Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, April 2020, Open Library of the Humanities

    Prof Sonia Frota

  28. Executive functions and pragmatics in children with high-functioning autism

    Article • Reading and Writing, August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Sonia Frota

  29. The Sense of Sounds: Brain Responses to Phonotactic Frequency, Phonological Grammar and Lexical Meaning

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, March 2019, Frontiers

    Prof Sonia Frota

  30. Revisiting Stress “Deafness” in European Portuguese – A Behavioral and ERP Study

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, December 2018, Frontiers

    Prof Sonia Frota

  31. Emerging word segmentation abilities in European Portuguese-learning infants: new evidence for the rhythmic unit and the edge factor

    Article • Journal of Child Language, June 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Prof Sonia Frota

  32. Chapter 8. Early development of intonation

    Article • April 2018, John Benjamins

    Prof Sonia Frota

  33. Executive Functions and Prosodic Abilities in Children With High-Functioning Autism

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, March 2018, Frontiers

    Prof Sonia Frota

  34. Chapter 3. Building a prosodic profile of European Portuguese varieties

    Article • October 2017, John Benjamins

    Prof Sonia Frota

  35. Chapter 4. The yes-no question contour in Brazilian Portuguese

    Article • October 2017, John Benjamins

    Prof Sonia Frota

  36. Emergência de sândi consonântico em Português Europeu: uma abordagem prosódica

    Article • Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, September 2017, Associacao Portuguesa de Linguistica

    Prof Sonia Frota

  37. The role of intonation and visual cues in the perception of sentence types: Evidence from European Portuguese varieties

    Article • Laboratory Phonology Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, September 2017, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Prof Sonia Frota

  38. Atypical preference for infant-directed speech as an early marker of autism spectrum disorders? A literature review and directions for further research

    Article • Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Sonia Frota, Linda Watson

  39. Prosodic development in European Portuguese from childhood to adulthood

    Article • Applied Psycholinguistics, March 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Prof Sonia Frota

  40. Dysarthria in individuals with Parkinson's disease: a protocol for a binational, cross-sectional, case-controlled study in French and European Portuguese (FraLusoPark)

    Article • BMJ Open, November 2016, BMJ

    Prof Sonia Frota

  41. English-learning infants’ perception of boundary tones

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, October 2016, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Prof Sonia Frota

  42. European Portuguese CDI: Infants and toddlers

    Article • First Language, July 2016, SAGE Publications

    Prof Sonia Frota

  43. Surface and Structure: Transcribing Intonation within and across Languages

    Article • Laboratory Phonology Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, June 2016, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Prof Sonia Frota

  44. Infants’ perception of native and non-native pitch contrasts

    Article • May 2016, International Speech Communication Association

    Prof Sonia Frota

  45. Revisiting “stress deafness” in European Portuguese: An ERP study

    Article • May 2016, International Speech Communication Association

    Prof Sonia Frota

  46. Tune or text? Tune-text accommodation strategies in Portuguese

    Article • May 2016, International Speech Communication Association

    Prof Sonia Frota

  47. Intonation in European and Brazilian Portuguese

    Article • April 2016, Wiley

    Prof Sonia Frota

  48. Early Prosodic Development

    Article • March 2016, John Benjamins

    Prof Sonia Frota

  49. Prosody in Portuguese Children with HighFunctioning Autism

    Article • March 2016, John Benjamins

    Prof Sonia Frota

  50. Variação entoacional no Português do Brasil: uma análise fonológica do contorno nuclear em enunciados declarativos e interrogativos

    Article • Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, January 2016, Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Letras

    Prof Sonia Frota

  51. Infants’ Perception of the Intonation of Broad and Narrow Focus

    Article • Language Learning and Development, October 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Sonia Frota

  52. Intonation in Romance

    Article • June 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Sonia Frota

  53. Introduction

    Article • June 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Sonia Frota

  54. Intonational variation in Portuguese

    Article • June 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Sonia Frota

  55. A Stress “Deafness” Effect in European Portuguese

    Article • Language and Speech, March 2015, SAGE Publications

    Prof Sonia Frota

  56. Affective prosody in European Portuguese: Perceptual and acoustic characterization of one-word utterances

    Article • Speech Communication, March 2015, Elsevier

    Prof Sonia Frota

  57. Atypical Prosody in Asperger Syndrome: Perceptual and Acoustic Measurements

    Article • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, March 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Sonia Frota

  58. The intonational phonology of European Portuguese *

    Article • January 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Sonia Frota

  59. Infants' Perception of Intonation: Is It a Statement or a Question?

    Article • Infancy, October 2013, Wiley

    Prof Sonia Frota

  60. Toni Borowsky, Shigeto Kawahara, Takahito Shinya and Mariko Sugahara (eds.) (2012). Prosody matters: essays in honor of Elisabeth Selkirk. (Advances in Optimality Theory.) Sheffield & Bristol, Conn.: Equinox. Pp. xv+528

    Article • Phonology, May 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Prof Sonia Frota

  61. The phonology of rhythm from Classical to Modern Portuguese

    Article • Journal of Historical Linguistics, December 2012, John Benjamins

    Prof Sonia Frota, Charlotte Galves

  62. Prosodic Representations

    Article • December 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Sonia Frota

  63. Where do illusory vowels come from?

    Article • Journal of Memory and Language, April 2011, Elsevier

    Prof Sonia Frota

  64. Prosodic Categories: Production, Perception and Comprehension

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Sonia Frota

  65. Phonetics and Phonology: Interactions and Interrelations

    Article • Phonetica, January 2011, Karger Publishers

    Prof Sonia Frota

  66. Introduction

    Article • December 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pilar Prieto, Prof Sonia Frota

  67. Phonetics and Phonology

    Article • October 2009, John Benjamins

    Prof Sonia Frota

  68. Intonational phrasing in two varieties of European Portuguese

    Article • October 2007, De Gruyter

    Prof Sonia Frota

  69. Introduction

    Article • The Linguistic Review, January 2007, De Gruyter

    Pilar Prieto, Prof Sonia Frota

  70. The phonetics and phonology of intonational phrasing in Romance

    Article • January 2007, John Benjamins

    Prof Sonia Frota

  71. Grammar and Frequency Effects in the Acquisition of Prosodic Words in European Portuguese

    Article • Language and Speech, June 2006, SAGE Publications

    Prof Sonia Frota

  72. Subjects, objects and intonational phrasing in spanish and portuguese*

    Article • Studia Linguistica, August 2005, Wiley

    Prof Sonia Frota

  73. Prosodies

    Article • January 2005, De Gruyter

    Prof Sonia Frota

  74. The intonation of Standard and Northern European Portuguese: A comparative intonational phonology approach

    Article • Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, December 2003, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Prof Sonia Frota

  75. Prosodic word deletion in coordinate structures

    Article • Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, December 2002, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Prof Sonia Frota

  76. Nuclear falls and rises in European Portuguese: A phonological analysis of declarative and question intonation

    Article • Probus, January 2002, De Gruyter

    Prof Sonia Frota

  77. On the correlates of rhythmic distinctions: The European/Brazilian Portuguese case

    Article • Probus, January 2001, De Gruyter

    Prof Sonia Frota

  78. Intonation

    Article • Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Pilar Prieto, Prof Sonia Frota

  79. Intonational phrasing in Romance: The role of syntactic and prosodic structure

    Article • De Gruyter

    Prof Sonia Frota

  80. Tonal association and target alignment in European Portuguese nuclear falls

    Article • De Gruyter

    Prof Sonia Frota

  81. Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística

    Article • Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, Associacao Portuguesa de Linguistica

    Prof Sonia Frota