Pim Mak

Biographic Data

ID1498620
NAMEPim Mak
GIVEN NAMESPim
FAMILY NAMEMak
SIGNATUREMAK P
AFFILIATIONSUtrecht University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS13
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Cross-linguistic influence in processing English relative clauses by Farsi and Dutch speakers

    Open AccessPouran Seifi, Hanneke Loerts et al.ARTICLEActa Psychologica2026

    In an eye-tracking sentence-reading experiment, we explored whether there is a cross-linguistic influence of L1 Farsi and L1 Dutch on the processing of L2 English subject and object relative clauses (SRCs & ORCs). Both Farsi and Dutch are verb-final in the relative clause, which means that SRCs and ORCs cannot be distinguished based on the surface structure of the clause (NP NP V in both cases). In contrast, English relative clauses follow an NP …

  • The effects of restrictiveness on relative clause processing in Farsi

    Open AccessPouran Seifi, Hanneke Loerts et al.ARTICLEActa Psychologica2024

    With an eye-tracking experiment, we investigated the processing of Farsi object and subject relative clauses. Since restrictive relative clauses in Farsi are marked and distinguished clearly by the enclitic particle ی /-i/ attached to the head noun, we also compared the processing of restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses. Seifi (2021) conducted a corpus analysis that showed that object relative clauses are in general less frequent than…

  • A multi-method approach to estimating subjectivity of causal connectives

    Open AccessElena Savinova, Ted Sanders et al.ARTICLELingua2023References: 8

  • Macrostructure in the narratives of Indonesian-Dutch bilinguals

    Open AccessElena Tribushinina, Mila Irmawati et al.ARTICLELinguistic Approaches to…2022

    There is no agreement regarding the relationship between narrative abilities in the two languages of a bilingual child. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that such cross-language relationships depend on age and language exposure by studying the narrative skills of 32 Indonesian-Dutch bilinguals (mean age: 8;5, range: 5;0–11;9). The narratives were elicited by means of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) and analysed f…

  • Why Are Negative Questions Difficult to Answer? On the Processing of Linguistic Contrasts in Surveys

    Naomi Kamoen, Bregje Holleman et al.ARTICLEPublic Opinion Quarterly2017Cited by: 6References: 18

    Previous studies show that respondents are generally more likely to disagree with negative survey questions (e.g., This book is bad. Yes/No) than to agree with positive ones (e.g., This book is good. Yes/No). In the current research, we related this effect to the cognitive processes underlying question answering. Using eye-tracking, we show that during the initial reading of the question, negative evaluative terms (e.g., bad) require more process…

  • Using Conversation Analysis to Improve an Augmented Communication Tool

    Tom Koole, Pim MakARTICLEResearch on Language and Social…2014Cited by: 2References: 5

    An ALS (amyotrofic lateral sclerosis) patient could only move her eyes and interacted through a MyTobii AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) tool with eye-tracking and speech synthesizing technology. Conversation analysis of 75 minutes of video-recorded talk-in-interaction with her family members revealed a timing problem with turn taking. In response, we provided the tool with keys for direct yes and no answers. We tested the results…

  • Agree or Disagree? Cognitive Processes in Answering Contrastive Survey Questions

    Naomi Kamoen, Bregje Holleman et al.ARTICLEDiscourse Processes2011Cited by: 5References: 29

    Survey designers have long assumed that respondents who disagree with a negative question (“This policy is bad.”: Yes or No; 2-point scale) will agree with an equivalent positive question (“This policy is good.”: Yes or No; 2-point scale). However, experimental evidence has proven otherwise: Respondents are more likely to disagree with negative questions than to agree with positive ones. To explain these response effects for contrastive questions…