Maria Francisca de Andrade Ferreira Lier-Devitto

Degree in Anglo Germanic Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (1969), Master in Applied Linguistics and Language Studies from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (1983). PhD in Linguistics from the State University of Campinas (1994). Full Professor at the Department of Linguistics of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. Researcher and teacher of the Postgraduate Program in Applied Linguistics and Language Studies (LAEL), PUCSP. CNPq Researcher. Leader of the Acquisition, Pathologies and Language Clinic research group. Member of the Language Pathology Service (SPL) in the Communication Disorders Education and Rehabilitation Division (Derdic), where she is coordinating the Aphasic Care Center (CAAF) and the Interlaces Care Project for children with difficulties in relation to language and the social bond. Training and Clinic in Psychoanalysis. Has experience in Linguistics, more particularly in Language Acquisition and Language Pathologies, approached from a viewpoint that includes Psychoanalysis. He has been devoted to topics such as parallelism in children's speech and symptomatic speech; the issue of error and symptom in speech; to the speaker's listening to speech among others. It has reflected between Linguistics and Psychoanalysis. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)