Miguel Oliveira Jr.

Miguel Oliveira Jr (UFAL / CNPq) holds a PhD in Linguistics from Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada). He worked as an associate researcher at the University of Southern Denmark (Odense, Denmark), at the Institute for Computational and Theoretical Linguistics, ILTEC (Lisbon, Portugal), at the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, MPI (Leipzig, Germany), and at the University of St Andrews (St Andrews, Scotland, UK). He was a visiting researcher at the Electronic Research Laboratory (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA) and a visiting professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Davis, California. He mainly works in the following areas: prosody, experimental phonetics, psycholinguistics and linguistic documentation.