This paper investigates the differences between the pronoun and reflexive comprehension patterns of Dutch and English speaking children. 20 Dutch (6;5-7;6) and 20 English children (6;5-7;7) were tested on their comprehension ...

Many studies have evaluated politeness strategies between speakers and hearers in general, but not many have investigated the politeness strategies in which a third person addressee is implicated in the utterances, especially ...

Reading forms an important part of second language acquisition in formal education. One important element of being able to understand a text is to know the meaning of the words, but word can also be learned from reading. ...

This study aimed to investigate the differences in the production of gestures in spontaneous and planned speech. Given the cognitive link between speech and gesture (Kelly et al., 2010; Peeters et al., 2015; McNeill, ...

This study investigates the realisations of the English voiceless dental fricative [θ] by Dutch teenage and adult speakers of English. Forty-two Dutch participants were asked to complete a production task containing thirty ...