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Abstract
This exploratory study examines whether island effects in Brazilian Portuguese challenge the weak/strong dichotomous categorization and require an analysis through the lense of sensitivity effects. To do so, I apply three extraction mechanisms (Wh-question extraction, Wh-relative movement, Topicalization) to three types of syntactic constituents (internal arguments, external arguments, and adjuncts). Findings show that island effects in BP exhibit substantial variation across dependencies and constituents. Of all island types, only Sentential subject islands presented violations for every tested category. The results show that the weak/strong system fails to account not only for Wh-islands (as proven by Almeida, 2014), but also for other types of island structures.