Conflicts in Interpretation - Petra Hendriks
Children’s late mastery of marked interpretations
Conflicts in Interpretation - Petra Hendriks
Petra Hendriks [+]
University of Groningen
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Petra Hendriks is a Professor at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Her publications include Breinmakers & Breinbrekers (with Niels Taatgen and Tjeerd Andringa, 1997) and Optimal Communication (with Helen de Hoop and Reinhard Blutner, 2006).
Irene Kramer
Henriette de Swart [+]
University of Utrecht
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Prof. dr. Henriette de Swart is professor of French linguistics and semantics. She is also affiliated to the cognitive artificial intelligence program. Her research focuses on cross-linguistic semantics, especially in the area of nominals, tense and aspect, negation.
Description
This chapter investigates children’s interpretation of indefinite noun phrases in Dutch in different positions in the sentence. In the domain of word order variation, several studies on the acquisition of object scrambling show that children are capable of producing scrambled structures already at a young age as well.