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  • The Interpretation of Contrastive Stress in Spanish-Speaking Children 
    Baauw, Sergio; Ruigendijk, Esther; Cuetos, Fernando (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "The aim of this paper is to investigate Spanish children’s interpretation of pronouns across sentence boundaries. Referential dependencies established between pronouns and their antecedents are constrained by both syntactic, ...
  • Learning Verbs that Lack Argument Structure : The case of raising verbs 
    Becker, Misha (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "In this paper, I address the question of how language learners come to distinguish the class of ‘raising’ predicates from other kinds of predicates. The class of raising predicates is a small class, containing verbs such ...
  • Grammatical Knowledge of Hebrew as a Second Language in Veteran Russian-Speaking Immigrants in Israel 
    Alfi-Shabtay, Iris; Ravid, Dorit; DeKeyser, Robert M. (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "Israel has absorbed over one million immigrants from the former Soviet Union since its establishment. This enormous immigration has prompted many studies, most of which focused on sociological aspects in immigrants who ...
  • What Early Clitics Can Tell Us about Early Subjects 
    Avram, Larisa; Coene, Martine (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "It is a well-known fact that children drop subjects during the early stages of linguistic development, irrespective of the value of the subject drop parameter in the target language. It has also been argued that children ...
  • Why Child L2 Acquisition? 
    Schwartz, Bonnie D. (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "In recent work (Schwartz 2003a, 2003b, under review), I have begun to explore the question of the status of child L2 acquisition, and my reading of the relevant research is that in some ways it resembles L1 acquisition ...
  • On the Status of Preverbal Subjects in Null Subject Languages: Evidence from Acquisition 
    Mar Adragão, Maria do; Costa, João (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "The results presented in this paper provide evidence against the analysis of preverbal subjects in European Portuguese as left-dislocated for the following reasons: a) Children produce preverbal subjects in a much higher ...
  • On the Acquisition of Phonological Contrasts 
    Elan Dresher, B. (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "Many discussions of language acquisition at some point include the phrase ‘Jakobson...proposed’, or ‘following Jakobson’. In keeping with this tradition, let me begin by observing that Jakobson, Fant and Halle (1952) ...
  • Getting Complements on your Mental State (Verbs) 
    Villiers, Jill de (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "There is a considerable body of theoretical and experimental work on how children develop a Theory of Mind. A recent meta-analysis by Wellman, Cross and Watson (2001) has revealed a consensus that children develop an ...
  • Competition and Cooperation 
    Clark, Robin (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-07)
    "Population biology, whether in the guise of population genetics or in the guise of a more abstract evolutionary theory, provides a wonderful source of ideas for anyone studying the logical problem of language acquisition ...
  • The Integrated Language Database, with an aside on the Spoken Dutch Corpus 
    Kruyt, Truus (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-09)
    One of the current projects of the Institute for Dutch Lexicology (INL) is the Integrated Language Database of 8th–21st-Century Dutch (ILD). The aim is to create a flexible linguistic research instrument by linking ...
  • On Speech and Language: Studies for Sieb G. Nooteboom 
    Quené, Hugo; Heuven, Vincent van (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-09)
    Sieb G. Nooteboom (born in Makassar, former Dutch East Indies, on April 19,1939) is professor of Phonetics at Utrecht University, and chairman of the Netherlands Speech Technology Foundation. After taking his position in ...
  • Planning in speech melody: production and perception of downstep in Dutch 
    Heuven, Vincent J. van (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-09)
    This paper studies the planning of downsteps in Dutch enumerations of two to six items long. Is it true that the available pitch range is subdivided into smaller downsteps as the number of accented items in the enumeration ...
  • On measuring multiple lexical activation using the cross-modal semantic priming technique 
    Janse, Esther; Quené, Hugo (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-09)
    Cross-modal semantic priming with partial auditory primes seems a good technique to assess spoken-word recognition, because it allows tracking the activation of multiple word candidates. However, previous research using ...
  • (De-)accenting and discourse structure 
    Hoekstra, Heleen (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-09)
    The research reported on in this paper is part of a larger study on sentence accent in (particularly)Dutch, in which a rather unconventional approach is followed. Instead of regarding accents chiefly as carriers of pragmatic ...
  • Perceived vowel duration 
    Gussenhoven, Carlos (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-09)
    "Two subjects that lie close to Sieb Nooteboom’s professional heart are speech perception and vowel duration, and I am therefore pleased that I can combine these two interests in my contribution to this volume. I am ...
  • Speech synthesis and electronic dictionaries 
    Dirksen, Arthur (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-09)
    Speech synthesis software can be used in electronic dictionaries to generate audible renditions of phonetic transcriptions, idioms and example sentences. This paper discusses advantages and disadvantages of using synthesized ...
  • The perceptual development of a British-English phoneme contrast in Dutch adults 
    Heeren, Willemijn (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-09)
    How does the perception of a new phoneme contrast develop? In answering this question we consider two hypotheses: i) Acquired Distinctiveness: before learning, differences between and within phoneme categories are hardly ...
  • There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip 
    Cutler, Anne; Henton, Caroline G. (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-09)
    The retiring academic may look back upon, inter alia, years of conference attendance. Speech error researchers are uniquely fortunate because they can collect data in any situation involving communication; accordingly, the ...
  • The tongue slips into (recently learned) patterns 
    Dell, Gary S.; Warker, Jill A. (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-09)
    Speech errors reflect linguistic knowledge. For example, phonological errors follow languagewide phonotactic constraints such as the fact that [h] must be an onset in English. We review five experimental studies that ...
  • On the role of the late rise and the early fall in the turn-taking system of Dutch 
    Caspers, Johanneke (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-09)
    The question posed in the present paper is whether subjects interpret a short utterance with a late non-prominent rise in pitch (LH%) as having a ‘go on’ function, prompting the current speaker to continue, whereas the ...