Current functions and tasks at the Freie Universität

• Since 07/2022: Scientific staff in the Department of Prof. Dr. Uli Reich
• Since 10/2022: Webteam of the Institute for Romance Philology

CV

Work experience

• Since 2022: Scientific staff  – Freie Universität Berlin (AB Reich)
• 04/2021 – 06/2022: Language teacher (German/English)
• 06/2020 – 11/2020: Undergraduate Support Fellow – Advanced Studies Institute/UFMG
• 03/2018 – 03/2019: Undergrad scientific staff – LEEL/UFMG

Academics

• Since 2022: Doctorate on the relation between gestures and prosody
• 2019 – 2021: Master's Degree in Linguistics – Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil (UFMG)
• 2016 – 2018: Bachelor in Linguistics – Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil (UFMG)

Scholarships

• 2020 – 2022: Deutsch Lehren Lernen Premium (Goethe Institut Scholarship with Friedrich Schiller Jena for teacher training in German)
• 2019 – 2021: Master's Scholarship (Minas Gerais Research Funding Foundation, Fapemig) 
• 2019: Winterkurs DAAD: Introduction to German C1 (FH Aachen)

Key points

• Intonation
• Gesture
• Corpus Linguistics

Presentations

Multiproblematic multimodality: gestures and prosody relations. Forschungskolloquiums von Ferdinand von Mengden. Freie Universität Berlin, 2024.

Multiproblematic multimodality. Forschungscolloquium der romanistischen Sprachwissenschaft. Freie Universität Berlin, 2023.

Synchronicity of prosody and gesture: a bibliographic search for Romance. Linguistik Meet Up Berlin-Brandenburg, Humboldt Universität, 2023. [Poster]

Klingen romanische Sprachen immer gleich?. Interaktiver Vortrag mit Live-Experiment im Rahmen der Langen Nacht der Wissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin, 2023.

Papers

Barros, C. A. & Mello, H. (2023). The C-ORAL-BRASIL proposal for the treatment of multimodal corpora data: the BGEST corpus pilot project. In: Ramírez, A. G.; Mejía, J. M.; Martin, P. V. Digital Humanities, Corpus and Language Technology / Humanidades Digitales, Corpus y Tecnología del Lenguaje. University of Groningen Press. DOI: 10.21827/64db66b6f1039

Barros, C. A. & Mello, H. (2023). O alinhamento entre unidades prosódicas não terminais e frases gestuais: implicações da teoria da língua em ato. In: CONGRESSO BRASILEIRO DE PROSÓDIA, 2, 2022, Florianópolis. Anais [...]. Florianópolis: Lbass. v. 1, p. 15-22. Disponível em: http://www.periodicos.letras.ufmg.br/index.php/anais_coloquio/index

Barros, C. A. & Mello, H. (2023). Metodologia de alinhamento som/gesto: o que nos revela a fala espontânea. In: da Hora, D. Helmer, A. Interseções Linguísticas: Estudos diversos. São Paulo: Líquido Editorial. p. 54-70. https://www.mundoalfal.org/sites/default/files/revista/Estudios_Diversos.pdf

Barros, C. A. & Santos, S. M. (2022). A Protocol for Comparing Gesture and Prosodic Boundaries in Multimodal Corpora. Proceedings PROPOR, 313-322. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-98305-5_29

Barros, C. A. (2021). A relação entre unidades gestuais e quebras prosódicas: o caso da unidade informacional Parentético. [Master's Thesis, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais]. http://hdl.handle.net/1843/37703

Barros, C. A. (2020). Corpus approach towards narrative analysis of tense and aspect. Working Papers em Linguística, 21(1), 278–298. DOI: 10.5007/1984-8420.2020v21n1p278