Steven Gillis

Datos Biográficos

ID5900675
NOMBRESteven Gillis
NOMBRESSteven
APELLIDOGillis
FIRMAGILLIS S
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Antwerp
ORCID0000-0002-2067-0576
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS38
TOTAL DE CITAS38
TOTAL COMO AUTOR38
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1983
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2023
ÍNDICE H1

  • Spontaneous speech intelligibility

    Open AccessNathalie BOONEN, Hanne Kloots et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2023

    Speaking intelligibly is an important achievement in children’s language development. How far do congenitally severe-to-profound hearing-impaired children who received a cochlear implant (CI) in the first two years of their life advance on the path to intelligibility in comparison to children with typical hearing (NH)? Spontaneous speech samples of children with CI and children with NH were orthographically transcribed by naïve transcribers. The …

  • Parents tune their vowels to the emergence of children’s words

    Open AccessLotte Odijk, Steven GillisARTICLEJournal of Child Language2023

    The aim of this study was to investigate the acoustic vowel space area in infant directed speech (IDS). The research question is whether the vowel space is expanded or remains constant in IDS. A corpus of spontaneous interactions of 9 dyads followed monthly from the age of 6 to 24 months was analyzed. The occurrences in the parents’ speech of each word that the children eventually acquired were extracted. The surface of the vowel triangle and the…

  • Children steer the inflectional diversity of their parents

    Open AccessLotte Odijk, Steven GillisARTICLEFirst Language2023

    The inflectional diversity of parents’ speech directed to children acquiring Dutch was investigated. Inflectional diversity is defined as the number of inflected forms of a particular lemma (e.g. singular, plural of a noun) and measured by means of Mean Size of Paradigm (MSP). Changes in the inflectional diversity of infant directed speech (IDS) were analyzed as a function of children’s developing linguistic abilities. Two types of changes in the…

  • Neighbourhood approach as a leverage for municipal integrated mental health care, Ghent

    Open AccessSara Symoen, Steven Gillis et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    Problem Statement: Psychological problems are common in Flanders (Belgium). 33% of Flemish people report experiencing problems such as stress, anxiety, depressive feelings, etc. 14% have a mental disorder and 1 to 2% of the population a severe psychiatric problem. However, about half of those who could use help do not find appropriate help (unmet need) or avoid help. Partly because of the decrease in residential mental health services, some neigh…

  • Speech production accuracy of children with auditory brainstem implants

    Open AccessJolien Faes, Joris Gillis et al.ARTICLEFirst Language2022

    Auditory brainstem implantation (ABI) is a recent innovation in pediatric hearing restoration in children with a sensorineural hearing impairment. Only limited information is available on the spontaneous speech development of severe-to-profound congenitally hearing-impaired children who received an ABI. The purpose of this study was to investigate longitudinally the accuracy of ABI children’s word productions in spontaneous speech in comparison t…

  • Practices, challenges, and impacts of teaching and learning French as a second language in Ontario secondary schools

    Open AccessAlain Flaubert Takam, Steven Gillis et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Applied…2022

    This paper examines the practices, challenges, and future potential of the French as a second language (FSL) program in the Canadian province of Ontario's secondary schools, with a particular focus on those interested in technological and business programs. Questionnaires were filled out by students, parents, and teachers in six secondary schools. The responses offered insights into the current situation in Ontario's FSL, as well as into the poss…

  • French as second language management in Ontario secondary schools

    Open AccessAlain Flaubert Takam, Steven Gillis et al.ARTICLESN Social Sciences2021

  • Fine lexical tuning in infant directed speech to typically developing children

    Open AccessLotte Odijk, Steven GillisARTICLEJournal of Child Language2021

    Do parents fine-tune the MLU of utterances with a particular word as the word is on the verge of appearing in the child's production? We analyzed a corpus of spontaneous interactions of 30 dyads. The children were in the initial stages of their lexical development, and the parents’ utterances containing the words the children eventually acquired were selected. The main finding is that the MLU of the parental utterances containing the target words…

  • Input–output relations in Hebrew verb acquisition at the morpho-lexical interface

    Open AccessOrit Ashkenazi, Steven Gillis et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2020

    This study examined early Hebrew verb acquisition, highlighting CDS–CS relations across inflectional and derivational verb learning. It was carried out on a corpus of longitudinal dense dyadic interactions of two Hebrew-speaking toddlers aged 1;8–2;2 and their parents. Findings revealed correlated patterns within and between CDS and CS corpora in terms of verbs, structural root categories, and their components (roots, binyan conjugations, and der…

  • The effect of hearing impairment on the production of prominences

    Open AccessBénédicte Grandon, Anne Vilain et al.ARTICLEFirst Language2019

    This study explores the use of F0, intensity and duration in the production of two types of prominences in French: primary accent with duration as the main acoustic cue, and secondary accent with F0 and intensity as acoustic cues. These parameters were studied in 13 children using a cochlear implant (CI) and 17 children with a normal hearing (NH), aged 5 to 10 years. Words were recorded in two different tasks, word-repetition and picture-naming, …

  • Prosodic modulation in the babble of cochlear implanted and normally hearing infants

    Open AccessIlke De Clerck, Michèle Pettinato et al.ARTICLEFirst Language2018

    This study investigates prosodic modulation in the spontaneous canonical babble of congenitally deaf infants with cochlear implants (CI) and normally hearing (NH) infants. Research has shown that the acoustic cues to prominence are less modulated in CI babble. However acoustic measurements of individual cues to prominence give incomplete information about prosodic modulation. In the present study, raters are asked to judge prominence since they s…

  • Le développement de la richesse flexionnelle d'enfants porteurs d'un implant cochléaire et d'enfants normo-entendants

    Open AccessJolien Faes, Joris Gillis et al.ARTICLECahiers du Centre de Linguistique…2018

    Dans la littérature, les études qui concernent le développement grammatical d'enfants porteurs d'un implant cochléaire se sont concentrées surtout sur des tests standardisés. La présente étude a pour objectif d'analyser la richesse flexionnelle d'enfants porteurs d'un implant cochléaire dans leur langage direct et spontané en la comparant avec celle d'enfants normo-entendants. Neuf enfants porteurs d'un implant cochléaire ont été suivis annuellem…

  • Is prosodic production driven by lexical development? Longitudinal evidence from babble and words

    Open AccessIlke De Clerck, Michèle Pettinato et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2017

    This study investigated the relation between lexical development and the production of prosodic prominence in disyllabic babble and words. Monthly recordings from nine typically developing Belgian-Dutch-speaking infants were analyzed from the onset of babbling until a cumulative vocabulary of 200 words was reached. The differentiation between the two syllables of isolated disyllabic utterances was computed for f0, intensity, and duration measurem…

  • Consonant cluster production in children with cochlear implants

    Open AccessJolien Faes, Steven GillisARTICLEFirst Language2017

    In early word productions, the same types of errors are manifest in children with cochlear implants (CI) as in their normally hearing (NH) peers with respect to consonant clusters. However, the incidence of those types and their longitudinal development have not been examined or quantified in the literature thus far. Furthermore, studies on the spontaneous speech of Dutch-speaking children with CI are missing. This article compares children with …

  • The Effect of Word Frequency on Phonemic Accuracy in Children With Cochlear Implants and Peers With Typical Levels of Hearing

    Jolien Faes, Joris Gillis et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Deaf Studies and…2017

    The frequency of occurrence of words and sounds has a pervasive influence on typically developing children's language acquisition. For instance, highly frequent words appear earliest in a child's lexicon, and highly frequent phonemes are produced more accurately. This study evaluates (a) whether word frequency influences word accuracy and (b) whether this is also the case for children with a history of auditory deprivation. More specifically, the…

  • The influence of socio-economic status on mothers’ volubility and responsiveness in a monolingual Dutch-speaking sample

    Open AccessLiesbeth Vanormelingen, Steven GillisARTICLEFirst Language2016

    This article investigates the amount of input and the quality of mother–child interactions in mothers who differ in socio-economic status (SES): mid-to-high SES (mhSES) and low SES. The amount of input was measured as the number of utterances per hour, the total duration of speech per hour and the number of turns per hour. The quality of the mother–child interactions was analysed using a simple coding scheme: (1) response or not?, (2) incorporati…

  • Breaking into the Hebrew verb system

    Open AccessOrit Ashkenazi, Dorit Ravid et al.ARTICLEFirst Language2016

    Verb learning is an important part of linguistic acquisition. The present study examines the early phases of verb acquisition in Hebrew, a language with complex derivational and inflectional verb morphology, analyzing verbs in dense recordings of CDS and CS of two Hebrew-speaking parent–child dyads aged 1;8–2;2. The goal was to pinpoint those cues that help toddlers identify the root-and-pattern make-up of Hebrew verbs despite the prevalence of s…

  • L'usage des corpus oraux pour la recherche sur l'acquisition

    Open AccessSteven GillisARTICLECahiers du Centre de Linguistique…2016

    Mon exposé portera sur l'usage des corpus oraux dans la recherche sur l'acquisition du langage. Je parlerai d'abord des corpus utilisés dans ce domaine et en particulier du problème de la rareté des données. Ensuite je présenterai trois solutions à ce problème : la base de données CHILDES2, la technologie LENATM 3 et finalement Deb ROY. Enfin, j'aimerais revenir à la question de la rareté des données et proposer quelques pistes pour l'aborder

  • Nominal plurals in Antwerp Hasidic Yiddish

    Open AccessNetta Abugov, Steven GillisARTICLELinguistics2016Referencias: 9

    Yiddish is a Germanic Jewish language that is natively spoken by adults and children in segregated Hasidic communities around the world. The current study investigates the system of noun plurals as spoken by Hasidic adults living in Antwerp, Belgium. In the absence of evidence-based detailed grammatical descriptions of Antwerp Hasidic Yiddish, the aims of this study were (a) to arrive at a description of the plural system and (b) to detect if pho…

  • Vowel pronunciation in open syllables in spontaneously spoken Standard Dutch

    Open AccessHanne Kloots, Steven Gillis et al.ARTICLELinguistics2014

    According to the Bimoraic Constraint (Kager 1989) and the Minimal Rhyme Constraint (Booij 1995), Dutch syllables by default end in either a tense vowel or a lax vowel followed by a consonant. Syllables ending in a lax vowel do not meet the phonological requirements of a felicitous syllable. The present paper reports on a listening task in which this phonological constraint is explored. Three linguists were asked to categorize 3984 vowels in open …

  • The relation between order of acquisition, segmental frequency and function

    Open AccessLIEVE VAN SEVEREN, JORIS J M GILLIS et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2013

    The impact of input frequency (IF) and functional load (FL) of segments in the ambient language on the acquisition order of word-initial consonants is investigated. Several definitions of IF/FL are compared and implemented. The impact of IF/FL and their components are computed using a longitudinal corpus of interactions between thirty Dutch-speaking children (age range: 0 ; 6–2 ; 0) and their primary caretaker(s). The corpus study reveals signifi…

  • How to measure the onset of babbling reliably

    Open AccessINGE MOLEMANS, RENATE VAN DEN BERG et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2012

    Various measures for identifying the onset of babbling have been proposed in the literature, but a formal definition of the exact procedure and a thorough validation of the sample size required for reliably establishing babbling onset is lacking. In this paper the reliability of five commonly used measures is assessed using a large longitudinal corpus of spontaneous speech from forty infants (age 0 ; 6−2 ; 0). In a first experiment it is shown th…

  • The acquisition of scalar structures

    Open AccessElena Tribushinina, Steven GillisARTICLELinguistics2012

    This study seeks to establish whether and at what age children's language production reflects relevant semantic differences between nongradable adjectives, on the one hand, and various classes of gradable adjectives, on the other hand. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of adjectives in spontaneous speech samples from Dutch-speaking children aged 2 to 7 and their caregivers show that children reveal some sensitivity to scalar structures alread…

  • On the role of morphological richness in the early development of noun and verb inflection

    Open AccessAris Xanthos, Sabine Laaha et al.ARTICLEFirst Language2011

    This study proposes a new methodology for determining the relationship between child-directed speech and child speech in early acquisition. It illustrates the use of this methodology in investigating the relationship between the morphological richness of child-directed speech and the speed of morphological development in child speech. Both variables are defined in terms of mean size of paradigm (MSP) and estimated in a set of longitudinal spontan…

  • Quantifying the Development of Inflectional Diversity

    Open AccessAris Xanthos, Steven GillisARTICLEFirst Language2010

    This study introduces a new metric for assessing the inflectional diversity of morphologically analyzed language transcripts. The proposed metric is based on the intuitive notion of mean size of paradigm (MSP) and makes extensive use of random sampling procedures for normalization purposes. This approach is systematically evaluated on the basis of large sets of Dutch acquisition corpora, including both child speech and child-directed speech. It i…