Petra Hendriks
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 795702 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Petra Hendriks |
| NOMBRES | Petra |
| APELLIDO | Hendriks |
| FIRMA | HENDRIKS P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7584-4078 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Left dislocation in Dutch
Left Dislocation in Dutch is still poorly understood. In particular, it is unclear why speakers of Dutch use this construction and which factors influence its use. To obtain more insight in the function and use of Left Dislocation in Dutch, we elicited narratives from 30 adult speakers of Dutch and carried out an analysis of the use of Left Dislocation constructions in these narratives. Our analysis revealed that neither the introduction of new r…
The discourse structure of free indirect discourse reports
We investigate the discourse structure of Free Indirect Discourse passages in narratives. We argue that Free Indirect Discourse reports consist of two separate propositional discourse units: an (explicit or implicit) frame segment and a reported content. These segments are connected at the level of discourse structure by a non-veridical, subordinating discourse relation of Attribution, familiar from recent SDRT analyses of indirect discourse cons…
Pragmatics is not a monolithic phenomenon, and neither is theory of mind
In this commentary, we emphasize the importance of the observations presented by Kissine (2021) in his target article for our understanding of the nonmonolithic nature of pragmatics. Our first aim is to complement Kissine's argument, discussing some critical cases of linguistic processes that demonstrate the need for a finer-grained characterization of pragmatic phenomena. In addition, we report some findings that suggest that perspective taking …
Pronoun Processing and Interpretation by L2 Learners of Italian
How do second language learners acquire form-meaning associations in the second language that are inconsistent with their first language? In this study, we focus on subject pronouns in Italian and Dutch. A native speaker of the non-null subject language Dutch learning the null subject language Italian as a second language will not only have to learn to use and comprehend null pronouns, but will also have to learn to use and comprehend overt prono…
Collective preferences in Dutch revealed by a covered-box experiment
Sentences with plural expressions are compatible with distributive and collective interpretations. Adults generally prefer collective interpretations, whereas children do not. Dotlačil (2010) argues that the adult collective preference arises via an implicature. Adults can reason about alternative utterances with the distributive marker each , thereby ruling out distributive interpretations in favor of collective interpretations. Experiment 1 use…
Reasoning about alternative forms is costly
Different words generally have different meanings. However, some words seemingly share similar meanings. An example are null and overt pronouns in Italian, which both refer to an individual in the discourse. Is the interpretation and processing of a form affected by the existence of another form with a similar meaning? With a pupillary response study, we show that null and overt pronouns are processed differently. Specifically, null pronouns are …
Does reported speech influence listeners’ choice of perspective in the interpretation of spatial prepositions
Linguistic cues can encourage adults to adopt an other-centric rather than an egocentric perspective. This study investigated whether the presence of direct speech compared to indirect speech influences listeners’ choice of perspective when interpreting the Dutch spatial prepositions voor ‘in front of’ and achter ‘behind’. Dutch adults and 10 to 12-year-old children were tested in a sentence-picture verification task. Contrary to expectations, we…
Discourse Semantics with Information Structure
The property of projection poses a challenge to formal semantic theories, due to its apparent non-compositional nature. Projected content is therefore typically analyzed as being different from and independent of asserted content. Recent evidence, however, suggests that these types of content in fact closely interact, thereby calling for a more integrated analysis that captures their similarities, while respecting their differences. Here, we prop…
Whose side are they on
Spatial prepositions express relations between objects in space. A subset of spatial prepositions is ambiguous due to the different perspectives from which these spatial relations can be considered. The ability to consider another person’s perspective is still developing in children. This study investigates how Dutch-speaking children (mean age 10) and adults interpret perspective-dependent spatial prepositions uttered by a speaker. We found that…
Complex language, complex thought
It has been argued (e.g., by De Villiers and colleagues) that the acquisition of sentence embedding is necessary for the development of first-order Theory of Mind (ToM): the ability to attribute beliefs to others. This raises the question whether the acquisition of double embedded sentences is related to, and perhaps even necessary for, the development of second-order ToM: the ability to attribute beliefs about beliefs to others. This study teste…
Timing in acquisition and the role of semantics and pragmatics
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Children’s first and second-order false-belief reasoning in a verbal and a low-verbal task
Is diachronic lenition a factor in the asymmetry in intelligibility between Danish and Swedish
Is the Dutch Delay of Principle B Effect dependent on verb type
Dutch children interpret reflexives correctly from age 4 on, but frequently misinterpret object pronouns as coreferring with the local subject until age 6. We investigated whether this so-called Delay of Principle B Effect (DPBE) differs by verb type. We tested 47 children between 4 and 6 years old with regular transitive verbs (e.g., to hit ) and grooming verbs (e.g., to wash ), verbs that often refer to self-directed actions. In general, childr…
Cognitive architectures and language acquisition
In this paper we discuss a computational cognitive model of children's poor performance on pronoun interpretation (the so-called Delay of Principle B Effect, or DPBE). This cognitive model is based on a theoretical account that attributes the DPBE to children's inability as hearers to also take into account the speaker's perspective. The cognitive model predicts that child hearers are unable to do so because their speed of linguistic processing i…
Production/comprehension asymmetries in language acquisition
Coherent discourse solves the pronoun interpretation problem
Many comprehension studies have shown that children as late as age 6 ; 6 misinterpret object pronouns as co-referring with the referential subject about half the time. A recent review of earlier experiments testing children's interpretation of object pronouns in sentences with quantified subjects (Elbourne, 2005) also suggests that there is a ‘Pronoun Interpretation Problem’. In contrast, two experiments addressing English children's pronoun prod…
Some implicatures reveal semantic differences
In everyday conversation, sentence meanings are not always expressed explicitly, but can also be merely implied. For example, consider the following sentence: (1) Some elephants have trunks. Taken literally, this sentence is true because in the present world elephants
Fill the Gap! Combining Pragmatic and Prosodic Information to Make Gapping Easy
Two studies investigated the effects of prosody and pragmatic context on off-line and on-line processing of sentences like John greeted Paul yesterday and Ben today. Such sentences are ambiguous between the so-called 'nongapping' reading, where John greeted Ben, and the highly unpreferred 'gapping' reading, where Ben greeted Paul. In the first experiment, participants listened to dialogues and gave a speeded response as to which reading of an amb…
Pronouns in competition
It is well known that English children between the age of 4 and 6 display a so-called Delay of Principle B Effect (DPBE) in that they allow pronouns to refer to a local c-commanding antecedent. Their guessing pattern with pronouns contrasts with their adult-like interpretation of reflexives. The DPBE has been explained as resulting from a lack of pragmatic knowledge or insufficient cognitive resources. However, such extra-grammatical accounts can…
Learning to reason about speakers' alternatives in sentence comprehension
Coherence Relations, Ellipsis and Contrastive Topics
A highly pervasive phenomenon in natural languages is ellipsis. It is commonly believed that the presence of ellipsis is one of the main reasons why natural language is as ambiguous as it is. If lexical material is left unpronounced, a hearer must rely on other parts of the sentence, on contextual information and on intonation to recover the unpronounced material. Because there may be different options within the sentence for recovery of unpronou…
Initial coordination and the Law of Coordination of Likes
This paper focuses on initial coordination involving the pair either-or. On the basis of the distribution of either it is argued that the Law of Coordination of Likes and the Left Bracket Thesis cannot be both correct at the same time. To determine which of the two assumptions must be weakened or possibly even abandoned, three different positions with respect to the Law of Coordination of Likes are investigated. Because neither of these positions…
Guest Edito's Introduction
PETRA HENDRIKS, HELEN DE HOOP, HENRIËTTE DE SWART; Guest Edito's Introduction, Journal of Semantics, Volume 17, Issue 3, 1 August 2000, Pages 185–187, http
The coordination-like structure of comparatives
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Production/comprehension asymmetries in language acquisition
Children’s first and second-order false-belief reasoning in a verbal and a low-verbal task
Learning to reason about speakers' alternatives in sentence comprehension
Reasoning about alternative forms is costly
Different words generally have different meanings. However, some words seemingly share similar meanings. An example are null and overt pronouns in Italian, which both refer to an individual in the discourse. Is the interpretation and processing of a form affected by the existence of another form with a similar meaning? With a pupillary response study, we show that null and overt pronouns are processed differently. Specifically, null pronouns are …
Fill the Gap! Combining Pragmatic and Prosodic Information to Make Gapping Easy
Two studies investigated the effects of prosody and pragmatic context on off-line and on-line processing of sentences like John greeted Paul yesterday and Ben today. Such sentences are ambiguous between the so-called 'nongapping' reading, where John greeted Ben, and the highly unpreferred 'gapping' reading, where Ben greeted Paul. In the first experiment, participants listened to dialogues and gave a speeded response as to which reading of an amb…
The Radožda-Vevčani Dialect of Macedonian
The coordination-like structure of comparatives
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Guest Edito's Introduction
PETRA HENDRIKS, HELEN DE HOOP, HENRIËTTE DE SWART; Guest Edito's Introduction, Journal of Semantics, Volume 17, Issue 3, 1 August 2000, Pages 185–187, http
Initial coordination and the Law of Coordination of Likes
This paper focuses on initial coordination involving the pair either-or. On the basis of the distribution of either it is argued that the Law of Coordination of Likes and the Left Bracket Thesis cannot be both correct at the same time. To determine which of the two assumptions must be weakened or possibly even abandoned, three different positions with respect to the Law of Coordination of Likes are investigated. Because neither of these positions…
Coherence Relations, Ellipsis and Contrastive Topics
A highly pervasive phenomenon in natural languages is ellipsis. It is commonly believed that the presence of ellipsis is one of the main reasons why natural language is as ambiguous as it is. If lexical material is left unpronounced, a hearer must rely on other parts of the sentence, on contextual information and on intonation to recover the unpronounced material. Because there may be different options within the sentence for recovery of unpronou…
Pronouns in competition
It is well known that English children between the age of 4 and 6 display a so-called Delay of Principle B Effect (DPBE) in that they allow pronouns to refer to a local c-commanding antecedent. Their guessing pattern with pronouns contrasts with their adult-like interpretation of reflexives. The DPBE has been explained as resulting from a lack of pragmatic knowledge or insufficient cognitive resources. However, such extra-grammatical accounts can…
Learning to reason about speakers' alternatives in sentence comprehension
Coherent discourse solves the pronoun interpretation problem
Many comprehension studies have shown that children as late as age 6 ; 6 misinterpret object pronouns as co-referring with the referential subject about half the time. A recent review of earlier experiments testing children's interpretation of object pronouns in sentences with quantified subjects (Elbourne, 2005) also suggests that there is a ‘Pronoun Interpretation Problem’. In contrast, two experiments addressing English children's pronoun prod…
Some implicatures reveal semantic differences
In everyday conversation, sentence meanings are not always expressed explicitly, but can also be merely implied. For example, consider the following sentence: (1) Some elephants have trunks. Taken literally, this sentence is true because in the present world elephants
Fill the Gap! Combining Pragmatic and Prosodic Information to Make Gapping Easy
Two studies investigated the effects of prosody and pragmatic context on off-line and on-line processing of sentences like John greeted Paul yesterday and Ben today. Such sentences are ambiguous between the so-called 'nongapping' reading, where John greeted Ben, and the highly unpreferred 'gapping' reading, where Ben greeted Paul. In the first experiment, participants listened to dialogues and gave a speeded response as to which reading of an amb…
Cognitive architectures and language acquisition
In this paper we discuss a computational cognitive model of children's poor performance on pronoun interpretation (the so-called Delay of Principle B Effect, or DPBE). This cognitive model is based on a theoretical account that attributes the DPBE to children's inability as hearers to also take into account the speaker's perspective. The cognitive model predicts that child hearers are unable to do so because their speed of linguistic processing i…
Production/comprehension asymmetries in language acquisition
Is the Dutch Delay of Principle B Effect dependent on verb type
Dutch children interpret reflexives correctly from age 4 on, but frequently misinterpret object pronouns as coreferring with the local subject until age 6. We investigated whether this so-called Delay of Principle B Effect (DPBE) differs by verb type. We tested 47 children between 4 and 6 years old with regular transitive verbs (e.g., to hit ) and grooming verbs (e.g., to wash ), verbs that often refer to self-directed actions. In general, childr…
Is diachronic lenition a factor in the asymmetry in intelligibility between Danish and Swedish
Timing in acquisition and the role of semantics and pragmatics
Preview this article: Timing in acquisition and the role of semantics and pragmatics, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/lab.4.3.08hen-1.gif
Children’s first and second-order false-belief reasoning in a verbal and a low-verbal task
Complex language, complex thought
It has been argued (e.g., by De Villiers and colleagues) that the acquisition of sentence embedding is necessary for the development of first-order Theory of Mind (ToM): the ability to attribute beliefs to others. This raises the question whether the acquisition of double embedded sentences is related to, and perhaps even necessary for, the development of second-order ToM: the ability to attribute beliefs about beliefs to others. This study teste…
Whose side are they on
Spatial prepositions express relations between objects in space. A subset of spatial prepositions is ambiguous due to the different perspectives from which these spatial relations can be considered. The ability to consider another person’s perspective is still developing in children. This study investigates how Dutch-speaking children (mean age 10) and adults interpret perspective-dependent spatial prepositions uttered by a speaker. We found that…
Discourse Semantics with Information Structure
The property of projection poses a challenge to formal semantic theories, due to its apparent non-compositional nature. Projected content is therefore typically analyzed as being different from and independent of asserted content. Recent evidence, however, suggests that these types of content in fact closely interact, thereby calling for a more integrated analysis that captures their similarities, while respecting their differences. Here, we prop…
Does reported speech influence listeners’ choice of perspective in the interpretation of spatial prepositions
Linguistic cues can encourage adults to adopt an other-centric rather than an egocentric perspective. This study investigated whether the presence of direct speech compared to indirect speech influences listeners’ choice of perspective when interpreting the Dutch spatial prepositions voor ‘in front of’ and achter ‘behind’. Dutch adults and 10 to 12-year-old children were tested in a sentence-picture verification task. Contrary to expectations, we…
Pronoun Processing and Interpretation by L2 Learners of Italian
How do second language learners acquire form-meaning associations in the second language that are inconsistent with their first language? In this study, we focus on subject pronouns in Italian and Dutch. A native speaker of the non-null subject language Dutch learning the null subject language Italian as a second language will not only have to learn to use and comprehend null pronouns, but will also have to learn to use and comprehend overt prono…
Collective preferences in Dutch revealed by a covered-box experiment
Sentences with plural expressions are compatible with distributive and collective interpretations. Adults generally prefer collective interpretations, whereas children do not. Dotlačil (2010) argues that the adult collective preference arises via an implicature. Adults can reason about alternative utterances with the distributive marker each , thereby ruling out distributive interpretations in favor of collective interpretations. Experiment 1 use…
Reasoning about alternative forms is costly
Different words generally have different meanings. However, some words seemingly share similar meanings. An example are null and overt pronouns in Italian, which both refer to an individual in the discourse. Is the interpretation and processing of a form affected by the existence of another form with a similar meaning? With a pupillary response study, we show that null and overt pronouns are processed differently. Specifically, null pronouns are …
The discourse structure of free indirect discourse reports
We investigate the discourse structure of Free Indirect Discourse passages in narratives. We argue that Free Indirect Discourse reports consist of two separate propositional discourse units: an (explicit or implicit) frame segment and a reported content. These segments are connected at the level of discourse structure by a non-veridical, subordinating discourse relation of Attribution, familiar from recent SDRT analyses of indirect discourse cons…
Pragmatics is not a monolithic phenomenon, and neither is theory of mind
In this commentary, we emphasize the importance of the observations presented by Kissine (2021) in his target article for our understanding of the nonmonolithic nature of pragmatics. Our first aim is to complement Kissine's argument, discussing some critical cases of linguistic processes that demonstrate the need for a finer-grained characterization of pragmatic phenomena. In addition, we report some findings that suggest that perspective taking …
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