Sonia Frota

Sónia Frota is Full Professor of Experimental Linguistics at the University of Lisbon. Her research seeks to understand the properties of prosodic systems (phrasing, intonation, and rhythm), the extent to which they vary across and within languages, and how they are acquired by infants and help to bootstrap the learning of language. She is the editor in chief of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics (since 2002), and the Director of the Center of Linguistics at the University of Lisbon (since...See more

Sónia Frota is Full Professor of Experimental Linguistics at the University of Lisbon. Her research seeks to understand the properties of prosodic systems (phrasing, intonation, and rhythm), the extent to which they vary across and within languages, and how they are acquired by infants and help to bootstrap the learning of language. She is the editor in chief of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics (since 2002), and the Director of the Center of Linguistics at the University of Lisbon (since 2020). See less