Monique Flecken
Biographic Data
| ID | 1453244 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Monique Flecken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Monique |
| FAMILY NAME | Flecken |
| SIGNATURE | FLECKEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Experimental Insights into the Influence of Logic and Pragmatics on Conditional Argument Evaluation
Research on conditional reasoning has long debated whether human rationality is best captured by logicist accounts or by pragmatically oriented approaches such as Relevance Theory, which highlight contextual and communicative factors. While the former predict reliable adherence to logical schemata (e.g., Modus Ponens and Modus Tollens ), experimental evidence consistently reveals systematic deviations, such as endorsement of invalid inferences. T…
Ad hoc concepts and linguistic relativity
This article serves as an introduction to the special issue on ad hoc concepts and linguistic relativity. We argue that empirical research on linguistic relativity can be re-interpreted through the lens of ad hoc cognition, a framework originating in Barsalou’s ( Memory & Cognition , 11 , 211–227, 1983) account of goal-derived categories and expanded by Casasanto and Lupyan’s ( The conceptual mind: New directions in the study of concepts. MIT Pre…
Perceiving colour through a language lens
The popularity of colour perception as a vehicle to investigate language–perception interactions has led to a large body of experimental work. Recently, studies have focused on investigating the underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms of effects of language on colour perception. Because of substantial variation in experimental designs and the study conditions in these designs, evaluating and comparing the evidence reported in these studies rem…
Ingredients of a Narrative
Situation models, mental representation of events that are unfolding in the environment, are known to help structure our experiences in our memory, but what exactly are the ingredients of a situation model and to what degree do abstract event features contribute to the updating cycle of a situation model? Here, we used an event card experiment in which we systematically manipulated abstract event feature dimensions (e.g., narrative X has a locati…
Fallacies and biases
When processing political arguments, people are strongly affected by their prior ideological beliefs. Political cognition often relies on two types of ideological biases. Firstly, confirmation bias leads addressees of political communication to accept arguments that affirm their preferred ideological positions. Secondly, disconfirmation bias probes reasoners to reject arguments that provide attitudinally incongruent evidence. Here, we report the …
The Agent Preference in Visual Event Apprehension
A central aspect of human experience and communication is understanding events in terms of agent (“doer”) and patient (“undergoer” of action) roles. These event roles are rooted in general cognition and prominently encoded in language, with agents appearing as more salient and preferred over patients. An unresolved question is whether this preference for agents already operates during apprehension, that is, the earliest stage of event processing,…
Minding the manner
Languages differ in the way motion events are encoded. In satellite-framed languages, motion verbs typically encode manner, while in verb-framed languages, path. We investigated the ways in which satellite-framed Dutch and verb-framed Turkish co-determine one’s attention to motion events in early bilinguals. In an EEG oddball paradigm, Turkish–Dutch bilinguals ( n = 25) and Dutch controls ( n = 27) watched short video clips of motion events, foll…
The state of the onion
Speaking for seeing
Human experience and communication are centred on events, and event apprehension is a rapid process that draws on the visual perception and immediate categorization of event roles ("who does what to whom"). We demonstrate a role for syntactic structure in visual information uptake for event apprehension. An event structure foregrounding either the agent or patient was activated during speaking, transiently modulating the apprehension of subsequen…
There is no prime for time
The acquisition of linguistic structures that require perspective-taking at the level of message generation is challenging. We investigate use of progressive aspect in L2 event encoding, using a sentence priming paradigm. We focus on Dutch, in which use of progressive aspect is optional. The progressive consists of a prepositional phrase (‘aan het,’ at-the), plus a verbal infinitive. We ask, to what extent L2 speakers, in comparison to native spe…
Progressive Attraction
This paper investigates the use of aspectual constructions in Dutch, Norwegian, and German, languages in which aspect marking that presents events explicitly as ongoing, is optional. Data were elicited under similar conditions with native speakers in the three countries. We show that while German speakers make insignificant use of aspectual constructions, usage patterns in Norwegian and Dutch present an interesting case of overlap, as well as dif…
How grammaticized concepts shape event conceptualization in language production
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Assessing bilingual attainment
The present study addresses questions concerning bilinguals’ attainment in the two languages by investigating the extent to which early bilinguals manage to apply the information structure required in each language when producing a complex text. In re-narrating the content of a film, speakers have to break down the perceived series of dynamic situations and structure relevant information into units that are suited for linguistic expression. The a…
What native speaker judgments tell us about the grammaticalization of a progressive aspectual marker in Dutch
This paper focuses on native speaker judgments of a construction in Dutch that functions as a progressive aspectual marker (aan het X zijn, referred to as aan het-construction) and represents an event as in progression at the time of speech. The method was chosen in order to investigate how native speakers assess the scope and conditions of use of a construction which is in the process of grammaticalization. It allows for the inclusion of a large…
How grammaticized concepts shape event conceptualization in language production
n Contains fulltext :\n 102596.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Assessing bilingual attainment
The present study addresses questions concerning bilinguals’ attainment in the two languages by investigating the extent to which early bilinguals manage to apply the information structure required in each language when producing a complex text. In re-narrating the content of a film, speakers have to break down the perceived series of dynamic situations and structure relevant information into units that are suited for linguistic expression. The a…
What native speaker judgments tell us about the grammaticalization of a progressive aspectual marker in Dutch
This paper focuses on native speaker judgments of a construction in Dutch that functions as a progressive aspectual marker (aan het X zijn, referred to as aan het-construction) and represents an event as in progression at the time of speech. The method was chosen in order to investigate how native speakers assess the scope and conditions of use of a construction which is in the process of grammaticalization. It allows for the inclusion of a large…
How grammaticized concepts shape event conceptualization in language production
n Contains fulltext :\n 102596.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Progressive Attraction
This paper investigates the use of aspectual constructions in Dutch, Norwegian, and German, languages in which aspect marking that presents events explicitly as ongoing, is optional. Data were elicited under similar conditions with native speakers in the three countries. We show that while German speakers make insignificant use of aspectual constructions, usage patterns in Norwegian and Dutch present an interesting case of overlap, as well as dif…
There is no prime for time
The acquisition of linguistic structures that require perspective-taking at the level of message generation is challenging. We investigate use of progressive aspect in L2 event encoding, using a sentence priming paradigm. We focus on Dutch, in which use of progressive aspect is optional. The progressive consists of a prepositional phrase (‘aan het,’ at-the), plus a verbal infinitive. We ask, to what extent L2 speakers, in comparison to native spe…
The state of the onion
Speaking for seeing
Human experience and communication are centred on events, and event apprehension is a rapid process that draws on the visual perception and immediate categorization of event roles ("who does what to whom"). We demonstrate a role for syntactic structure in visual information uptake for event apprehension. An event structure foregrounding either the agent or patient was activated during speaking, transiently modulating the apprehension of subsequen…
Minding the manner
Languages differ in the way motion events are encoded. In satellite-framed languages, motion verbs typically encode manner, while in verb-framed languages, path. We investigated the ways in which satellite-framed Dutch and verb-framed Turkish co-determine one’s attention to motion events in early bilinguals. In an EEG oddball paradigm, Turkish–Dutch bilinguals ( n = 25) and Dutch controls ( n = 27) watched short video clips of motion events, foll…
The Agent Preference in Visual Event Apprehension
A central aspect of human experience and communication is understanding events in terms of agent (“doer”) and patient (“undergoer” of action) roles. These event roles are rooted in general cognition and prominently encoded in language, with agents appearing as more salient and preferred over patients. An unresolved question is whether this preference for agents already operates during apprehension, that is, the earliest stage of event processing,…
Fallacies and biases
When processing political arguments, people are strongly affected by their prior ideological beliefs. Political cognition often relies on two types of ideological biases. Firstly, confirmation bias leads addressees of political communication to accept arguments that affirm their preferred ideological positions. Secondly, disconfirmation bias probes reasoners to reject arguments that provide attitudinally incongruent evidence. Here, we report the …
Perceiving colour through a language lens
The popularity of colour perception as a vehicle to investigate language–perception interactions has led to a large body of experimental work. Recently, studies have focused on investigating the underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms of effects of language on colour perception. Because of substantial variation in experimental designs and the study conditions in these designs, evaluating and comparing the evidence reported in these studies rem…
Ingredients of a Narrative
Situation models, mental representation of events that are unfolding in the environment, are known to help structure our experiences in our memory, but what exactly are the ingredients of a situation model and to what degree do abstract event features contribute to the updating cycle of a situation model? Here, we used an event card experiment in which we systematically manipulated abstract event feature dimensions (e.g., narrative X has a locati…
Experimental Insights into the Influence of Logic and Pragmatics on Conditional Argument Evaluation
Research on conditional reasoning has long debated whether human rationality is best captured by logicist accounts or by pragmatically oriented approaches such as Relevance Theory, which highlight contextual and communicative factors. While the former predict reliable adherence to logical schemata (e.g., Modus Ponens and Modus Tollens ), experimental evidence consistently reveals systematic deviations, such as endorsement of invalid inferences. T…
Ad hoc concepts and linguistic relativity
This article serves as an introduction to the special issue on ad hoc concepts and linguistic relativity. We argue that empirical research on linguistic relativity can be re-interpreted through the lens of ad hoc cognition, a framework originating in Barsalou’s ( Memory & Cognition , 11 , 211–227, 1983) account of goal-derived categories and expanded by Casasanto and Lupyan’s ( The conceptual mind: New directions in the study of concepts. MIT Pre…
Linguistics (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (8 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (5 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (4 works) · Communication (3 works) · German (3 works)