Associate Professor I
University of Campinas (UNICAMP), São Paulo, Brazil
Language Studies Institute
Department of Linguistics
Short bio: PhD in Linguistics at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Between 2008 and 2023, he researched topics in Language Acquisition and Computational Linguistics. Since 2024, his research interests have focused on pragmatics, communication, and language acquisition, using theoretical, experimental, and computational approaches to describe pragmatic aspects of linguistic knowledge and speakers’ verbal interactions, as well as the development of pragmatic knowledge in children. He leads projects and university extension courses on Nonviolent Communication and is an internationally certified instructor with the Center for Nonviolent Communication (USA). [last update: 01-Oct-2025]
General research interest
Pragmatics, Communication, and Language Acquisition
Specific research interests
- Theories of Pragmatics
- Nonviolent Communication (as defined by Dr. Marshall B. Rosenberg)
- The pragmatics of communication in the framework of nonviolent communication
- The development of pragmatics in children
- Crosslinguistic and cross-cultural pragmatics
- The psycholinguistics of pragmatics
- Corpus-based studies on pragmatics
Research group
PraCmAL – Grupo de Pesquisa em Pragmática, Comunicação e Aquisição da Linguagem
Ongoing funded projects (* Many projects below still reflect my previous research interests on NLP and gramatical development)
Research Project (participant), from March 2023 to February 2028
Corpora anotados digitais de línguas indígenas brasileiras com traduções automáticas (DACILAT) [Digital annotated corpora of Brazilian indigenous languages with automatic translations (DACILAT)]
Grant: FAPESP No. 2022/09158-5
Past funded projects
Research Project (leader), from August 2023 to July 2025
Desenvolvimento de um ambiente web para disponibilizar dados de aquisição da linguagem e uma ferramenta de detecção e revisão de inconsistências em corpora anotados morfossintaticamente. [Development of a web environment to provide language acquisition data and a tool for detecting and reviewing inconsistencies in morphosyntactically annotated corpora.]
Grant: FAEPEX No. 2507/23
Extension Project (leader), from January 2024 to July 2025
Fomentando uma cultura restaurativa em comunidades escolares: projeto piloto de ações baseadas em reflexões sobre linguagem e na abordagem da Comunicação Não-Violenta [Fostering a restorative culture in school communities: pilot project of actions based on reflections on language and the Non-Violent Communication approach]
Grant: (not available yet)
Research Project, from August 2019 to July 2021
The roles of cross-situational learning and of distributional information in language acquisition
Grant: FAPESP No. 2018/18655-7
Post-doctoral research project, from 2014 to 2016
Study and development of methods for automatic detection and correction of errors and inconsistencies in syntactically annotated corpora
Grant: FAPESP No. 2013/18090-6
Research Internships Abroad program (BEPE/FAPESP), on 2015
Study and application of explicit grammatical formalisms in the detection of inconsistency in treebanks
Supervisor: Dr. Anthony Kroch (University of Pennsylvania)
Grant: FAPESP 2014/17172-1
Contact
Departamento de Linguística – IEL/Unicamp
Rua Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, 571, Sala D.1.12
Phone: +55 19 3521-1533
CEP 13083-859 – Campinas – SP – Brazil (map)
fariap at unicamp dot br
Education
- Post-doctoral research (Unicamp/UPenn, 2014-2016)
- PhD in Linguistics, 2013 (Unicamp)
- Master’s in Linguistics, 2009 (Unicamp)
- Postgraduate studies in Information Systems, 2004, at Goiás Federal University (UFG/Brazil)
- BA in Computer Science, 2002 (UNIP/Brazil)
Curricula