Hanneke Loerts
Biographic Data
| ID | 1720001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hanneke Loerts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hanneke |
| FAMILY NAME | Loerts |
| SIGNATURE | LOERTS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8764-0905 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The role of perceptual salience in L2 morphology acquisition
Acquiring morphology poses a considerable challenge in second language acquisition (SLA), highlighting the need to explore methods that facilitate this task for L2 learners. One potential facilitator is salience, which is theorized to aid language acquisition by directing learners’ attention to certain linguistic elements. To empirically investigate the impact of one type of salience, perceptual salience, a text-based eye-tracking experiment was …
Cross-linguistic influence in processing English relative clauses by Farsi and Dutch speakers
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 …
Parametric and Nonparametric Statistics
Most of the commonly used statistical tests within the field of Applied Linguistics are based on assumptions about the underlying distribution and its parameters (e.g., means and standard deviations). These so‐called parametric statistics generally require the researcher to check, among other things, whether their data have a particular distribution or shape (i.e., an approximate normal distribution) and a comparable spread in scores across sampl…
Bilingual engagement and cognition across the adult lifespan
This retrospective cohort study examined the relationship between a continuous measurement of bilingual engagement (operationalized as language entropy) and cognitive aging in regional minority language speakers. We drew Frisian–Dutch bilinguals ( n = 7,448) and Low Saxon–Dutch bilinguals ( n = 10,114) from the Lifelines Cohort Study and included participants aged 20–80, enabling an adult lifespan perspective. Cognitive functioning was measured u…
The Association Between Multilingual Experience Factors and Cognitive Functioning in Older Adults
Objectives The complex life experience of speaking two or more languages has been suggested to preserve cognition in older adulthood. This study aimed to investigate this further by examining the relationship between multilingual experience variables and cognitive functioning in a large cohort of older adults in the diversely multilingual north of the Netherlands. Method A total of 11,332 older individuals participating in the Lifelines Cohort St…
The effects of restrictiveness on relative clause processing in Farsi
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…
Minority language happiness
Belonging to groups is often based on shared features between members and is associated with higher levels of (social) well-being. One especially strong marker of one’s group membership is language. In linguistics, most research about group membership and well-being focuses on migrants and refugees. However, very little research has focused on the link between speaking a regional language and well-being. This is surprising, as regional languages …
N400 or P600?—A Systematic Review of ERP Studies on Gender Stereotype Violations
Psycholinguistic studies using the event‐related brain potential (ERP) technique have found both N400 and P600 effects for gender stereotype violations. The finding of a P600 effect for this type of world knowledge violation is surprizing given that this component is traditionally associated with syntactic violations. In this paper, we set out to systematically analyse design‐ and task patterns of ERP studies investigating gender stereotype viola…
More than a few words
Research shows that multilingual pupils’ school achievements and socio-affective development may improve when their home languages are valued positively and used as educational resources. Meaningful shifts in education for social justice must therefore be based on valuing pupils’ home languages and implementing sustainable translanguaging methods. However, the implementation of these methods is often limited to symbolic interactional acts and sup…
The relation between musical abilities and speech prosody perception
Previous research has suggested a relationship between musical abilities and the perception of speech prosody. However, effect sizes and significance differ across studies. In a meta-analysis, we assessed the overall size of this relation across 109 studies and investigated which factors moderated the effect. We found a significant, medium-sized positive correlation between musical abilities and speech prosody perception. This correlation was lar…
Salience is in the brain of the beholder
A recent paper by Boswijk, Loerts & Hilton (Boswijk et al., 2020) in this journal discusses how technological advances allow us to explore the cognitive processing of so-called salient linguistic features, and how this could provide us with quantifiable measures of ‘salience’. The paper concludes that, although promising, the used measure of pupil dilation seems to be limited as a measure for linguistic salience, and therefore refers future resea…
The impact of second- and third-language learning on language aptitude and working memory
An increasing number of adults learn more than one foreign language simultaneously. While the cognitive benefits of using multiple languages from birth have been studied extensively, little is known about possible cognitive benefits of learning multiple languages simultaneously in adulthood. Among the cognitive abilities which play a role in language learning, language aptitude (LA) and working memory (WM) are argued to be crucial. Traditionally …
Who really speaks like that?’ – Children’s implicit and explicit attitudes towards multilingual speakers of Dutch
This study investigates children’s explicit and implicit language attitudes in a highly diverse primary education. Set in the bilingual province of Fryslân, the Netherlands, the current research was carried out in the scope of the 3M-project (‘More opportunities with multilingualism’: Duarte & Günther-van der Meij, 2018a. A holistic model for multilingualism in education. EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages, 5(2), 24–43. htt…
Salience is in the eye of the beholder
‘Salience’ is a term frequently used in linguistics but an exact definition for the concept is lacking. Recent technological advances which allow us to explore the cognitive processing of so-called salient linguistic features could provide us with quantifiable measures of ‘salience’, and lead to a further understanding of the concept and its relationship to language acquisition and change. In this paper we measure pupil dilation with the assumpti…
Neuter is not Common in Dutch
Who really speaks like that?’ – Children’s implicit and explicit attitudes towards multilingual speakers of Dutch
This study investigates children’s explicit and implicit language attitudes in a highly diverse primary education. Set in the bilingual province of Fryslân, the Netherlands, the current research was carried out in the scope of the 3M-project (‘More opportunities with multilingualism’: Duarte & Günther-van der Meij, 2018a. A holistic model for multilingualism in education. EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages, 5(2), 24–43. htt…
Neuter is not Common in Dutch
Neuter is not Common in Dutch
Salience is in the eye of the beholder
‘Salience’ is a term frequently used in linguistics but an exact definition for the concept is lacking. Recent technological advances which allow us to explore the cognitive processing of so-called salient linguistic features could provide us with quantifiable measures of ‘salience’, and lead to a further understanding of the concept and its relationship to language acquisition and change. In this paper we measure pupil dilation with the assumpti…
Who really speaks like that?’ – Children’s implicit and explicit attitudes towards multilingual speakers of Dutch
This study investigates children’s explicit and implicit language attitudes in a highly diverse primary education. Set in the bilingual province of Fryslân, the Netherlands, the current research was carried out in the scope of the 3M-project (‘More opportunities with multilingualism’: Duarte & Günther-van der Meij, 2018a. A holistic model for multilingualism in education. EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages, 5(2), 24–43. htt…
Salience is in the brain of the beholder
A recent paper by Boswijk, Loerts & Hilton (Boswijk et al., 2020) in this journal discusses how technological advances allow us to explore the cognitive processing of so-called salient linguistic features, and how this could provide us with quantifiable measures of ‘salience’. The paper concludes that, although promising, the used measure of pupil dilation seems to be limited as a measure for linguistic salience, and therefore refers future resea…
The impact of second- and third-language learning on language aptitude and working memory
An increasing number of adults learn more than one foreign language simultaneously. While the cognitive benefits of using multiple languages from birth have been studied extensively, little is known about possible cognitive benefits of learning multiple languages simultaneously in adulthood. Among the cognitive abilities which play a role in language learning, language aptitude (LA) and working memory (WM) are argued to be crucial. Traditionally …
More than a few words
Research shows that multilingual pupils’ school achievements and socio-affective development may improve when their home languages are valued positively and used as educational resources. Meaningful shifts in education for social justice must therefore be based on valuing pupils’ home languages and implementing sustainable translanguaging methods. However, the implementation of these methods is often limited to symbolic interactional acts and sup…
The relation between musical abilities and speech prosody perception
Previous research has suggested a relationship between musical abilities and the perception of speech prosody. However, effect sizes and significance differ across studies. In a meta-analysis, we assessed the overall size of this relation across 109 studies and investigated which factors moderated the effect. We found a significant, medium-sized positive correlation between musical abilities and speech prosody perception. This correlation was lar…
The effects of restrictiveness on relative clause processing in Farsi
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…
Minority language happiness
Belonging to groups is often based on shared features between members and is associated with higher levels of (social) well-being. One especially strong marker of one’s group membership is language. In linguistics, most research about group membership and well-being focuses on migrants and refugees. However, very little research has focused on the link between speaking a regional language and well-being. This is surprising, as regional languages …
N400 or P600?—A Systematic Review of ERP Studies on Gender Stereotype Violations
Psycholinguistic studies using the event‐related brain potential (ERP) technique have found both N400 and P600 effects for gender stereotype violations. The finding of a P600 effect for this type of world knowledge violation is surprizing given that this component is traditionally associated with syntactic violations. In this paper, we set out to systematically analyse design‐ and task patterns of ERP studies investigating gender stereotype viola…
Parametric and Nonparametric Statistics
Most of the commonly used statistical tests within the field of Applied Linguistics are based on assumptions about the underlying distribution and its parameters (e.g., means and standard deviations). These so‐called parametric statistics generally require the researcher to check, among other things, whether their data have a particular distribution or shape (i.e., an approximate normal distribution) and a comparable spread in scores across sampl…
Bilingual engagement and cognition across the adult lifespan
This retrospective cohort study examined the relationship between a continuous measurement of bilingual engagement (operationalized as language entropy) and cognitive aging in regional minority language speakers. We drew Frisian–Dutch bilinguals ( n = 7,448) and Low Saxon–Dutch bilinguals ( n = 10,114) from the Lifelines Cohort Study and included participants aged 20–80, enabling an adult lifespan perspective. Cognitive functioning was measured u…
The Association Between Multilingual Experience Factors and Cognitive Functioning in Older Adults
Objectives The complex life experience of speaking two or more languages has been suggested to preserve cognition in older adulthood. This study aimed to investigate this further by examining the relationship between multilingual experience variables and cognitive functioning in a large cohort of older adults in the diversely multilingual north of the Netherlands. Method A total of 11,332 older individuals participating in the Lifelines Cohort St…
The role of perceptual salience in L2 morphology acquisition
Acquiring morphology poses a considerable challenge in second language acquisition (SLA), highlighting the need to explore methods that facilitate this task for L2 learners. One potential facilitator is salience, which is theorized to aid language acquisition by directing learners’ attention to certain linguistic elements. To empirically investigate the impact of one type of salience, perceptual salience, a text-based eye-tracking experiment was …
Cross-linguistic influence in processing English relative clauses by Farsi and Dutch speakers
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 …
Psychology (11 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Cognition (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Cohort (3 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (3 works)