Browsing by Subject "Linguistics"
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A Cross-linguistic Examination on the McGurk Effect in Different Developmental States
(2021)McGurk and MacDonald (1976) found the visual illusion in audiovisual speech perception, called “the McGurk effect”, where a face articulating /ga/ was presented synchronously with an auditory /ba/ syllable and subjects ... -
A multi-method approach to estimating subjectivity of causal connectives: the case of poetomu and tak chto in Russian
(2021)Cross-linguistic evidence suggests that languages often employ specialized causal connectives to express subjective versus objective relations. Although there are both established and emerging methodologies used for ... -
A new Non-Word Repetition Task to test the production of consonant clusters with and without /s/ by TD Dutch Children
(2018)The main aim of this thesis is to investigate the production of consonant clusters with and without /s/ by TD Dutch children. Sub aims are to determine the kind of errors children make while realising consonant clusters, ... -
Affective Language Processing: Language-driven Evaluation of Character Affect in Morally Loaded Narratives
(2022)Research has shown that the valence of emotional linguistic stimuli is reflected in corrugator supercilii (‘frowning muscle’) activation, which can be measured using facial electromyography. But in a larger context, the ... -
An explorative study of the error profile of children with DLD: Retention difficulties with phonemic item and order information during nonword repetition
(2020)It has been widely reported that children with developmental language disorder (DLD) are outperformed by their TD peers regarding their abilities to repeat nonwords. The poor nonword repetition of children with DLD has ... -
Assessment of Dyslexia in Bilinguals
(2007)Problems with reading and writing in a second language are often attributed to the bilingualism. However, these problems may be the result of a reading disorder that was not previously identified. Hence, dyslexia in ... -
Bilingual code-switching: Persian compound verbs
(2022)Code-switching is one of the most interesting topics in bilingualism. Since the structure of bilingual compound verbs is a type of code-switching, this study is aimed to investigate the production of compound verbs in ... -
Can a car really run on empty?: An experiment testing for within- and between-individual comparison classes in relative and absolute adjectives.
(2021)This thesis investigates two theories that provide an account for the distinct difference between relative and absolute gradable adjectives. Kennedy (2009) on one hand proposes that the difference is fundamental to the ... -
Can a car really run on empty?: An experiment testing for within- and between-individual comparison classes in relative and absolute adjectives.
(2021)This thesis investigates two theories that provide an account for the distinct difference between relative and absolute gradable adjectives. Kennedy (2009) on one hand proposes that the difference is fundamental to the ... -
Can we hug in Italian? An investigation on lexical and grammatical reciprocity
(2018)Cross-linguistically, two different strategies lead to reciprocal meanings: grammatical reciprocity and lexical reciprocity. While the former is a productive strategy that takes place due to the presence of grammatical ... -
Counting atoms or sums? An evaluation of two theses about cross-linguistic variation in numeral-noun constructions
(2020)The morphological form that nouns take when they combine with numerals varies greatly across languages. English numerals take a plural noun (two boys), while Turkish numerals require the noun to be singular (iki çocuk, ... -
Cumulative Semantic Interference in People with Aphasia
(2017)Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether a well-studied interference effect, Cumulative Semantic Interference, occurs in a group of People with Aphasia, and to see whether it requires correct picture-naming ... -
Cyberspatial semantics: the behaviour of prepositions in software development forums.
(2019)In this thesis, I look at the use of two types of prepositions in forum posts on software development, because these prepositions are used `atypically'. Atypical use refers to a preposition occurring with a verb it would ... -
De expressiviteit van DEM + ‘hele’ + N
(2016)Deze bachelorscriptie behandelt de expressiviteit van de constructie DEM + ‘hele’ + N. Potts (2007) geeft zes criteria om te bepalen of een uiting expressiviteit toont of niet, namelijk: independency, non-displaceability, ... -
Developmental language trajectories: Differences between pre-schoolers with 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome and typically developing pre-schoolers
(2020)The 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome (22q11DS) is characterized by large phenotypic variation, but research suggests that the language development of children with 22q11DS is commonly delayed compared to typically developing (TD) ... -
Diagnostic Instrument for Mild Aphasia: adaptation and standardization in French A preliminary study
(2019)The Diagnostic Instrument for Mild Aphasia (DIMA) (Satoer et al., 2019) is a valid tool developed in Dutch to evaluate the language of patients with suspected mild aphasia at production and perception levels in the most ... -
Difficulties in sounds and sentences: The relation between phonological and syntactic difficulties of toddlers with developmental language disorder
(2019)For children with a developmental language disorder (DLD), impairments in phonology and syntax often co-occur (Fey et al., 1994; Tyler, Lewis, Haskill & Tolbert, 2002). However, it is not clear whether, and if so how, ... -
Dit is mijn scriptie, hè? / * toch? / * zeker? Characterizing the differences between three Dutch confirmationals
(2020)In this thesis I report of an explorative study in which I investigated the usage and the restrictions on the usage of three Dutch confirmationals (hè, toch, and zeker). In order to do so, I made use of a relatively new ... -
Does it take two to tango? On Reciprocal Verbs as Collective Predicate Concepts.
(2017)Most works on reciprocity so far relied on the assumption that the intransitive variant of reciprocal verbs - e.g. Mark and Violet hugged – logically entails its two transitive counterparts: Violet hugged Mark and Mark ... -
Dual Lexical Activation in Bilinguals: a Tale of Two Verbs
(2017)This study investigates the lexical organisation in the bilingual brain by the hand of an information theoretical approach. Reaction times of English-Dutch bilingual participants in response to high and low entropy verb ...