All modern Germanic languages except for English share the Verb Second (V2) property. This property dictates that the finite verb should be in second position in all declarative main clauses. Recently though, a particular ...

Various studies into the theory of mind of young children suggest that there is a universal developmental pattern. Under experimental conditions, children can demonstrate understanding of desire before belief, and in several ...

The expression and interpretation of emotions is closely related to specific characteristics of language and culture. Language provides a set of means to express emotions verbally. Culture influences how emotions are ...

The LS CE-chirp stimulus attempts to compensate for the cochlear travelling wave delay and the change in latency with frequency per intensity. The aim of this study is to evaluate the suitability of the LS CE-chirp for ...

This study investigated whether on the basis of acoustic measurements types of dysarthria can be determined similar to perceptive judgments and if acoustic measurements show any relation to the severity within the different ...

Dit onderzoek legt de focus op alternatieve manieren van het uitdrukken van de voltooid tegenwoordige tijd bij Nederlandse monolinguale kinderen met en zonder SLI. Hiervoor is de volgende onderzoeksvraag opgesteld: Welk ...

This study aimed at evaluating the appropriateness of a CALL system’s exercises and examining the relationship between exercise types and difficulty level by analyzing log file data. There were 233 participants and 5 ...

The (perceived) animacy of a referent plays a role in a number of linguistic phenomena. Research has for instance shown that animate referents are more often referred to by reduced referential expressions (such as pronouns), ...

De Amsterdam-Nijmegen Test voor Alledaagse Taalvaardigheden (ANTAT) brengt bij personen met afasie (PMA) de verbaal-mondelinge communicatie in kaart. Echter is de scoring subjectief door het ontbreken van een interne ...

The present research aimed to get a better understanding of the relation between linguistic concreteness and Construal Level Theory. Two studies were conducted to determine whether linguistic concreteness affects the ...