Students are aged between 18 and 40 years (80% aged 18-30) and represent 14 different mother tongues (we provide in brackets the number of texts per first language): Chinese (323), English (142), Spanish (139), German (76), Russian (70), French (43), Japanese (50), Italian (34), Dutch (15), Tetum (22), Arabic (13), Polish (22), Korean (9) and Romanian (8).
we established a set of 7 fields that were required for the productions of the informant to be included in COPLE2: name, age, nationality, gender, mother tongue, knowledge of other second or foreign languages, period of time studying Portuguese.