Conflicts in Interpretation - Petra Hendriks
Speaking versus understanding in language acquisition
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
Previous chapters of this book have paid attention to bidirectional Optimality Theory, stressing the importance of bidirectionality in natural language interpretation. The present chapter aims to answer the question whether the failure to optimize bidirectionally is an example of a more general pattern that can also be observed in other areas of language comprehension. Moreover, it aims to answer whether the hypothesized failure to optimize bidirectionally has similar consequences for children’s production of marked forms. That is, if children also experience problems producing marked forms.