Fernanda Ferreira

@fernandaedi.bsky.social

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Psycholinguist @UCDavis. Made in Portugal, raised in Canada, living in California. Author of "Psycholinguistics: A Very Short Introduction" from Oxford University Press, published in January 2025.

A still from the aforementioned film showing a head shot of George Smiley, played by Gary Oldman.
A 3 column list of names of candidates
A graph showing average number of words per second on the x axis (from 0.75 to 3.75) and average % of strong prosodic boundaries on the y axis (from 10 to 50). Four lines are plotted, one for each of the four corpora. Each shows a clear negative relationship: as speech rate goes up, number of prosodic boundaries goes down.
Four graphs showing the same four tasks in four panels. The x axis is number of syntactic closing nodes, from 1 to 10, and the y axis is average prosodic boundary strength, from .6 to 1.2. The figures show a cubic relationship between the two variables.
Four graph panels: scene descriptions young adults, same but with time pressure, same but young adults provided action descriptions, and scene descriptions from 60+ adults. X axis is syntactic boundary (yes/no) and Y axis is prosodic boundary (y/n). The values show moderate alignment between syntax and prosody.
three black bike racks of the kind that let you attach your top fender
An email from the Journal of Gastroenterology. Dear Doctor. Ferreira Fernanda, We hope you're doing well! "World Journal of Gastoenterology (ISSN 2766-788X) (IF: 5.598) invites you to submit your papers for upcoming issue. As an esteemed researcher, we invite you to contribute your valuable work to our upcoming publication."
Liberation Books bookstore right next to the House of Cheese Ltd.
A yellow bookmark with an image of Karl Marx and this text in red font: FOR THE POLITICS IN YOUR FUTURE Liberation Books 160 Spence St (at Broadway) Ph.774-0637 Books - Periodicals - Records - Lecture Series Labour History, Women's Studies, Economics, Literature, Ecology, Political Theory, etc.
A loaf of bread resting in a cooling rack.
Drawing of the inside of a church and above the text says “Canadian Mennonite University / SINGING RESISTANCE in solidarity with Minneapolis.” Then lists date and location in Winnipeg.
A red Unitrans bus. The front display says "BEEP BEEP I'M A BUS".
A bowl of filhoses / malassadas on a kitchen counter
A scene from a kitchen counter. A bowl of filhoses or malassadas are in the foreground, nicely browned and sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon. In the background is a bowl of fruit.
Bouba and Kiki demonstrating some basic math. Kiki is lying horizontal across the rug, while Bouba is perfectly perpendicular lying parallel to the fireplace
Email from Hilary Clinton to Noori Ali: Do you recall the ten year old Yemeni girl who got herself divorced? I met her at the Glamour awards last year. There was a CNN story last few days about how unhappy she is, still living at home, not attending school and quite angry that her life is not better. Is there any way we can help her? Could we get her to the US for counseling and education?
A smiling Neil Young standing behind some fancy looking audio equipment. He's wearing a turtleneck underneath a dark button-down shirt, long hair parted down the center.
Foggy morning, an hour or two after dawn. A bike path runs through the center of the image with trees and plants to either side. The trees on the left display beautiful autumn reds and golds.
Wab Kinew is with the University of Winnipeg and University College of the North. He says: “Every day, all of us speak indigenous languages - even if we don’t realize it. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Now we’re taking action to keep those languages alive. Starting in 2026, new indigenous languages degree programs at UWinnipeg and UCN will train the next generation of Ojibwe and Cree teachers. Let’s lift up our shared heritage and build One Manitoba for all of us.”
About 15 members of Fernanda Ferreira's lab--undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs--posing in front of the iconic UC Davis sign on campus.
A brand new Canadian passport
Robert Redford is on the left, Barbra Streisand is on the right. Her hand is gently touching the back of his neck and he’s holding her arm. They’re looking at each other longingly.
A headline about Lauren Boebert’s son Tyler that says “Tyler’s son was born in 2023 when he was 17 years old…”
The cats Bouba (on the left) and Kiki (on the right) on a hardwood floor. Bouba has his left paw on Kiki’s right shoulder and Kiki has her right paw on Bouba’s left shoulder.
Two photos of the area around the University of Winnipeg. The one above shows the area in 1957. There’s an old, beautiful building, the original university (then called United College), and at street level is a string of small businesses that can be accessed by foot. The photo below shows a modern building towering over a lower modern building. All the cute shops are gone.
Bouba the cat in the foreground guarding his green froggie toy and his and Kiki's latest acquisition, my soft Canada slippers, which they retrieved somehow from the closet of my study.
Item reads: Breaking news from the New York Times: Angela Paxton Files for Divorce from Texas Attorney General. The announcement could have a significant affect <should be “effect”> on the race for U.S. Senate in Texas. Ken Paxton is challenging Senator John Cornyn in the Republican primary.
Christine Baranski as Agnes from The Gilded Age, looking surprised and displeased
An absurdly large cup of cappuccino sitting on a suitcase.
Kitten hiding under a couch and looking nervous
My partner is on the left and I’m on the right. We look content.
Two cats, Kiki and Bouba, looking out an open window in my study. Their view is of trees and plant, and the occasional bird.
An HP printer/scanner and a landline office phone, with voicemail functionality
A beautiful grey and white cat lying with front paws crossed right in the center of a sofa, legs dangling off the edge, a chessboard on a table in front of him.
Me in a white dress and sandals on a city bike, purse in a back basket
My backyard in Davis, California. It's a beautiful sunny afternoon. In the foreground is a patio with some paving stones, a fire table and Adirondack chair, and some dark pink flowers. Further back is a path surrounded by greenery, trees, and flowers, leading to a bench that's highlighted by the beautiful sunshine. At the periphery are some redwoods.
Image of the pronotalist couple Simone and Malcolm Collins. Simone is on the left wearing her bonnet, a black tunic over a white blouse, and her trademark black round glasses. Malcolm is wearing a polo shirt and a jacket together with his trademark black square glasses.
Cats in a home study. Kiki is clearly visible, standing on the desk, but Bouba is hiding in the desk chair. All that can be seen of him is his paw sticking up from the top of the chair.
A screenshot of a review of Hacks in 4/10/2025 Washington Post. The highlighted sentence: “The new season picks up right where the last one ended, with Deborah having realized her career-long dream to be the first woman to host “Late Night,”, never mind that she’s now the storied show’s oldest new house, too.”
Two cats near an open window on a gorgeous spring afternoon. One cat is looking longingly outside, the other is looking back in as if resigned to the presence of the screen that prevents them from going outside. Outside the window you can see a beautiful tree already covered in leaves.
Headline in the New York Times, March 26, 2025: “Elmo and Elon Musk are Cited as G.O.P. Lawmakers Lay Into PBS and NPR”. Photo of politician holding up a picture of Elmo accompanies the story.
Kiki (left) and Bouba (right) cuddled together on a blanket, looking annoyed but not surprised.
Kiki and Bouba on the back of a couch, one behind the other, as far apart as possible.
Copies of my new book "Psycholinguistics: A Very Short Introduction". The top of the cover is almost black, then halfway down there's sort of a spray of cherry-red dots, and about 1/3 of the way down, a pink-white almost water-like effect. At the very bottom right-hand corner of the cover is the word "Oxford", since the book is published by Oxford University Press.
Kiki the calico cat on her hind legs with front paws in prayer position.
Two work trucks parked side-by-side, completely blocking the entrance to the bike paths that make up the Greenbelt in Davis California.
The cover of the children’s book “Freckleface Strawberry” by Julianne Moore, illustrated by LeUyen Pham. The cover art shows a little red haired girl looking happy and confident.
Two beautiful cats snuggled together into a single ball, front paws outstretched. The one on the left has a mustache and the one on the right has a face that’s half grey, half white.
New York Times story with a photo of US President #47 (looking highly bronzered) sitting at his Oval Office desk signing something, probably an Executive Order. The caption reads "How Trump's Actions Are Defying Legal Limits".
Bouba on the left and Kiki on the right, our two kittens, lying on the wood floor and light green rug respectively. They're arranged head-to-head and then straight out, front paws around each other, creating the impression of a single long cat.
The stuff we retrieved from under our refrigerator: three toy springs, one yellow, one green, and one red, a hair tie, a teaspoon, a white lid to we-don’t-know-what, a blue lid to nasal spray, a Velcro tie, and three cloves of garlic.
A blue Trek bicycle with basket on the back, resting on its kickstand in my driveway. Background is typical Northern California, including the trunk of a redwood tree.
A digital piano keyboard on a stand in front of a window.
Trump signing executive orders behind a small desk in front of a fireplace.
Two cats hugging, one looking away from the camera and one looking at it with a horrified expression.
A woman in a long black dress with long sleeves and black gloves. Her head is entirely covered by a black veil.
Two cats cuddled with each other, looking at the camera, their favorite stuffed frog right next to them.
Image of the clickbait for a New York Times editorial by Russ Douthat titled "O Canada, Come Join Us", accompanied by a picture of Douthat's head.