Annemarie Van Hout
Biographic Data
| ID | 328585 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annemarie Van Hout |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annemarie |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Hout |
| SIGNATURE | VAN HOUT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4971-7243 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mandarin Children’s Acquisition of Event Culmination
This paper investigates how Mandarin-speaking children acquire event culmination in causative change-of-state verbs, focusing on the contrast between resultative verb compounds (RVCs; e.g., shā-sǐ ‘kill-dead’), which entail culmination, and monomorphemic causative verbs (e.g., shā ‘kill’), which trigger a cancellable culmination inference. We provide the first acquisition study of two factors argued to license non-culminating interpretations in t…
‘Deep brain stimulation is no ON/OFF-switch’
Despite technological innovations, clinical expertise remains the cornerstone of psychiatry. A clinical expert does not only have general textbook knowledge, but is sensitive to what is demanded for the individual patient in a particular situation. A method that can do justice to the subjective and situation-specific nature of clinical expertise is ethnography. Effective deep brain stimulation (DBS) for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) involve…
How Adults and Children Interpret Disjunction under Negation in Dutch, French, Hungarian and Italian
In English, a sentence like “The cat didn’t eat the carrot or the pepper” typically receives a “neither” interpretation; in Japanese it receives a “not this or not that” interpretation. These two interpretations are in a subset/superset relation, such that the “neither” interpretation (strong reading) asymmetrically entails the “not this or not that” interpretation (weak reading). This asymmetrical entailment raises a learnability problem. Accord…
Interpretation of Imperfective Past Tense in Spanish
Some studies on the L1 acquisition of aspect in various child languages have discovered that imperfective aspect is acquired later than perfective aspect, whereas others find early adult-like performance. A variety of explanations has been advanced, particularly problems (i) with the semantics of imperfective aspect in combination with telic predicates, (ii) inferring the intended temporal antecedent in a discourse, and (iii) reasoning about an a…
Children's non-adultlike interpretations of telic predicates across languages
The acquisition literature has documented several different types of misinterpretations of telic sentences by children, yet a comprehensive analysis of these child interpretations has not been attempted and a crosslinguistic perspective is lacking. This task is not easy, for, on the surface, children's non-adultlike interpretations appear to be scattered and even contradictory across languages. Several cognitive biases have been proposed to expla…
Pourquoi les attentes suscitées par la télésurveillance sont souvent déçues
La télésurveillance est de plus en plus utilisée dans le suivi des patients, car on attend d'elle qu'elle apporte des améliorations substantielles concernant les relevés de mesures, la collecte de données, l'efficience thérapeutique et les options de communication dont disposent les patients. Cependant, les études en STS ( Science and Technology Studies ) ont montré que, fréquemment, les nouvelles technologies ne sont pas à la hauteur des attente…
How do 5-year-olds understand questions? Differences in languages across Europe
The comprehension of constituent questions is an important topic for language acquisition research and for applications in the diagnosis of language impairment. This article presents the results of a study investigating the comprehension of different types of questions by 5-year-old, typically developing children across 19 European countries, 18 different languages, and 7 language (sub-)families. The study investigated the effects of two factors …
Shining trinkets and unkempt gardens
The increasing use of telecare will profoundly change nursing care. How to understand these changes is, however, far from clear. This is because (i) studies on telecare seldom consider the situation it replaces, and (ii) current concepts and methods used to study the impact of telecare may not allow us to fully grasp these changes. We suggest that an analysis of the changing materiality of care practices is a suitable way to articulate and reflec…
Development of Dutch children’s comprehension of subject and object wh -questions
While Dutch welke ‘which’-questions are structurally ambiguous, number agreement cues can disambiguate them. Despite such agreement cues, children misinterpret object questions as subject questions (Metz et al. 2010, 2012; Schouwenaars et al. 2014). We investigated if adding another cue, specifically, topicality in a discourse context, helps the interpretation of which -questions in two groups of Dutch children (5;5, n = 15 and 8;5, n = 21). Usin…
Children’s first and second-order false-belief reasoning in a verbal and a low-verbal task
Passivization, reconstruction and edge phenomena
Perfective - imperfective
Tense morphology has been found to be cross-linguistically vulnerable in specific language impairment (SLI). Research on the development of aspect is rather limited and results are quite inconsistent; some studies suggest that aspect appears intact (Leonard et al. 2003), while others report severe deficits (Fletcher et al. 2005). The present study is the first one to examine the comprehension and production of aspectual distinctions in Greek SLI.…
Subject interpretation of object questions by Dutch 5-year-olds
We investigated the interpretation of Dutch wie ‘who’- and welke ‘which’-questions in Dutch 5-year-olds. In contrast to wh-questions in many languages, Dutch wh-questions are structurally ambiguous between a subject and an object reading. We used test items in which the ambiguity was resolved by number agreement. The participants (N = 20) heard a wh-question and had to choose the corresponding picture out of a set of four; this method revealed th…
Asymmetries in the acquisition of definite and indefinite NPs
Acquiring perfectivity and telicity in Dutch, Italian and Polish
Deverbal Nominalization, Object versus Event Denoting Nominals, Implications for Argument & Event Structure
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Shining trinkets and unkempt gardens
The increasing use of telecare will profoundly change nursing care. How to understand these changes is, however, far from clear. This is because (i) studies on telecare seldom consider the situation it replaces, and (ii) current concepts and methods used to study the impact of telecare may not allow us to fully grasp these changes. We suggest that an analysis of the changing materiality of care practices is a suitable way to articulate and reflec…
Asymmetries in the acquisition of definite and indefinite NPs
Acquiring perfectivity and telicity in Dutch, Italian and Polish
Children’s first and second-order false-belief reasoning in a verbal and a low-verbal task
Children's non-adultlike interpretations of telic predicates across languages
The acquisition literature has documented several different types of misinterpretations of telic sentences by children, yet a comprehensive analysis of these child interpretations has not been attempted and a crosslinguistic perspective is lacking. This task is not easy, for, on the surface, children's non-adultlike interpretations appear to be scattered and even contradictory across languages. Several cognitive biases have been proposed to expla…
Pourquoi les attentes suscitées par la télésurveillance sont souvent déçues
La télésurveillance est de plus en plus utilisée dans le suivi des patients, car on attend d'elle qu'elle apporte des améliorations substantielles concernant les relevés de mesures, la collecte de données, l'efficience thérapeutique et les options de communication dont disposent les patients. Cependant, les études en STS ( Science and Technology Studies ) ont montré que, fréquemment, les nouvelles technologies ne sont pas à la hauteur des attente…
Passivization, reconstruction and edge phenomena
Deverbal Nominalization, Object versus Event Denoting Nominals, Implications for Argument & Event Structure
Preview this article: Deverbal Nominalization, Object versus Event Denoting Nominals, Implications for Argument & Event Structure, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/avt.8.10hou-1.gif
Acquiring perfectivity and telicity in Dutch, Italian and Polish
Asymmetries in the acquisition of definite and indefinite NPs
Subject interpretation of object questions by Dutch 5-year-olds
We investigated the interpretation of Dutch wie ‘who’- and welke ‘which’-questions in Dutch 5-year-olds. In contrast to wh-questions in many languages, Dutch wh-questions are structurally ambiguous between a subject and an object reading. We used test items in which the ambiguity was resolved by number agreement. The participants (N = 20) heard a wh-question and had to choose the corresponding picture out of a set of four; this method revealed th…
Passivization, reconstruction and edge phenomena
Perfective - imperfective
Tense morphology has been found to be cross-linguistically vulnerable in specific language impairment (SLI). Research on the development of aspect is rather limited and results are quite inconsistent; some studies suggest that aspect appears intact (Leonard et al. 2003), while others report severe deficits (Fletcher et al. 2005). The present study is the first one to examine the comprehension and production of aspectual distinctions in Greek SLI.…
Development of Dutch children’s comprehension of subject and object wh -questions
While Dutch welke ‘which’-questions are structurally ambiguous, number agreement cues can disambiguate them. Despite such agreement cues, children misinterpret object questions as subject questions (Metz et al. 2010, 2012; Schouwenaars et al. 2014). We investigated if adding another cue, specifically, topicality in a discourse context, helps the interpretation of which -questions in two groups of Dutch children (5;5, n = 15 and 8;5, n = 21). Usin…
Children’s first and second-order false-belief reasoning in a verbal and a low-verbal task
Shining trinkets and unkempt gardens
The increasing use of telecare will profoundly change nursing care. How to understand these changes is, however, far from clear. This is because (i) studies on telecare seldom consider the situation it replaces, and (ii) current concepts and methods used to study the impact of telecare may not allow us to fully grasp these changes. We suggest that an analysis of the changing materiality of care practices is a suitable way to articulate and reflec…
How do 5-year-olds understand questions? Differences in languages across Europe
The comprehension of constituent questions is an important topic for language acquisition research and for applications in the diagnosis of language impairment. This article presents the results of a study investigating the comprehension of different types of questions by 5-year-old, typically developing children across 19 European countries, 18 different languages, and 7 language (sub-)families. The study investigated the effects of two factors …
Pourquoi les attentes suscitées par la télésurveillance sont souvent déçues
La télésurveillance est de plus en plus utilisée dans le suivi des patients, car on attend d'elle qu'elle apporte des améliorations substantielles concernant les relevés de mesures, la collecte de données, l'efficience thérapeutique et les options de communication dont disposent les patients. Cependant, les études en STS ( Science and Technology Studies ) ont montré que, fréquemment, les nouvelles technologies ne sont pas à la hauteur des attente…
Children's non-adultlike interpretations of telic predicates across languages
The acquisition literature has documented several different types of misinterpretations of telic sentences by children, yet a comprehensive analysis of these child interpretations has not been attempted and a crosslinguistic perspective is lacking. This task is not easy, for, on the surface, children's non-adultlike interpretations appear to be scattered and even contradictory across languages. Several cognitive biases have been proposed to expla…
How Adults and Children Interpret Disjunction under Negation in Dutch, French, Hungarian and Italian
In English, a sentence like “The cat didn’t eat the carrot or the pepper” typically receives a “neither” interpretation; in Japanese it receives a “not this or not that” interpretation. These two interpretations are in a subset/superset relation, such that the “neither” interpretation (strong reading) asymmetrically entails the “not this or not that” interpretation (weak reading). This asymmetrical entailment raises a learnability problem. Accord…
Interpretation of Imperfective Past Tense in Spanish
Some studies on the L1 acquisition of aspect in various child languages have discovered that imperfective aspect is acquired later than perfective aspect, whereas others find early adult-like performance. A variety of explanations has been advanced, particularly problems (i) with the semantics of imperfective aspect in combination with telic predicates, (ii) inferring the intended temporal antecedent in a discourse, and (iii) reasoning about an a…
‘Deep brain stimulation is no ON/OFF-switch’
Despite technological innovations, clinical expertise remains the cornerstone of psychiatry. A clinical expert does not only have general textbook knowledge, but is sensitive to what is demanded for the individual patient in a particular situation. A method that can do justice to the subjective and situation-specific nature of clinical expertise is ethnography. Effective deep brain stimulation (DBS) for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) involve…
Mandarin Children’s Acquisition of Event Culmination
This paper investigates how Mandarin-speaking children acquire event culmination in causative change-of-state verbs, focusing on the contrast between resultative verb compounds (RVCs; e.g., shā-sǐ ‘kill-dead’), which entail culmination, and monomorphemic causative verbs (e.g., shā ‘kill’), which trigger a cancellable culmination inference. We provide the first acquisition study of two factors argued to license non-culminating interpretations in t…
Psychology (13 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Language Development and Disorders (9 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (7 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (6 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (6 works) · Comprehension (5 works)