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Margarida PETTER is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of São Paulo, where she teaches general and African linguistics. She coordinated the project "The participation of African languages in the constitution of Brazilian Portuguese", resulting in the publication of two reference works on the subject of contact between Portuguese and African languages in Brazil. She conducts research into African languages and the contact between African languages and Brazilian Portuguese. She has been director of the Center for African Studies at the University of São Paulo since May 2013.