Evelyn Bosma

Biographic Data

ID3844941
NAMEEvelyn Bosma
GIVEN NAMESEvelyn
FAMILY NAMEBosma
SIGNATUREBOSMA E
AFFILIATIONSLeiden University
ORCID0000-0001-8550-3720
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX0

  • Structural priming and cross-linguistic influence in L2 comprehension of Dutch relative clauses and PP-attachments

    Open AccessEvelyn Bosma, Seda Ayçiçek et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: This study investigated cross-linguistic influence and structural priming in L2 learners’ comprehension of Dutch relative clauses (RCs) and PP-attachments. While PP-attachments are structurally ambiguous in all three languages, RCs are structurally ambiguous in Dutch and German, but not in English. Design/Methodology/Approach: L1 speakers of German ( n = 18) and English ( n = 19) completed a structu…

  • Supporting the development of the bilingual lexicon through translanguaging

    Open AccessEvelyn Bosma, Arthur Bakker et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Psychology of…2023

  • Regular and Irregular Inflection in Different Groups of Bilingual Children and the Role of Verbal Short-Term and Verbal Working Memory

    Open AccessE Blom, Evelyn Bosma et al.ARTICLELanguages2021References: 56

    Bilingual children often experience difficulties with inflectional morphology. The aim of this longitudinal study was to investigate how regularity of inflection in combination with verbal short-term and working memory (VSTM, VWM) influences bilingual children's performance. Data from 231 typically developing five- to eight-year-old children were analyzed: Dutch monolingual children (N = 45), Frisian-Dutch bilingual children (N = 106), Turkish-Du…

  • Language activities in a minority–majority language context

    Open AccessEvelyn Bosma, E BlomARTICLEJournal of Child Language2020

    Previous research has shown that in a minority–majority language context, the quantity of language input at home is more important for the development of the minority language than for the development of the majority language. In the current study, we examined whether the same holds true for the frequency of specific language activities at home. In a group of five- and six-year-old Frisian–Dutch bilingual children ( n = 120), we investigated to w…

  • Cross-language distance influences receptive vocabulary outcomes of bilingual children

    Open AccessE Blom, Tessel Boerma et al.ARTICLEFirst Language2020

    Various studies have shown that bilingual children score lower than their monolingual peers on standardized receptive vocabulary tests. This study investigates if this effect is moderated by language distance. Dutch receptive vocabulary was tested with the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT). The impact of cross-language distance was examined by comparing bilingual groups with a small (Close; n = 165) and a large between-language distance (Dis…

  • Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (Main) adapted for use in West Frisian

    Open AccessEvelyn Bosma, Jelske DijkstraARTICLEZAS Papers in Linguistics2020

    This paper describes the current state of affairs concerning the West Frisian adaptation of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN). We provide a short description of the West Frisian language, the process of adapting MAIN into West Frisian and the results of recent research using this adaptation

  • A code-switching asymmetry in bilingual children

    Open AccessEvelyn Bosma, E BlomARTICLEInternational Journal of…2019

    Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: Recent research suggests that cognitive control plays a role in code-switching, both in bilingual adults and in bilingual children. Code-switching would only require cognitive control, however, when speakers maintain some degree of separation between their two languages, not when they completely mix the lexicons and grammars of their languages. For Frisian–Dutch bilinguals, mixing of Dutch (majority…

  • A longitudinal study on the gradual cognate facilitation effect in bilingual children’s Frisian receptive vocabulary

    Open AccessEvelyn Bosma, E Blom et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2019

    This longitudinal study investigated to what extent the acquisition of cognates among bilingual children depends on the degree of cross-language similarity and intensity of exposure to the tested language, and whether children’s sensitivity to cognates with different degrees of cross-language similarity changes over time. For three consecutive years, 120 Frisian-Dutch bilingual children were tested on their Frisian receptive vocabulary. The sampl…

  • The sooner the better? An investigation into the role of age of onset and its relation with transfer and exposure in bilingual Frisian–Dutch children

    Open AccessE Blom, Evelyn BosmaARTICLEJournal of Child Language2016

    In this study, age of onset (AoO) was investigated in five- and six-year-old bilingual Frisian–Dutch children. AoO to Dutch ranged between zero and four and had a positive effect on Dutch receptive vocabulary size, but hardly influenced the children's accurate use of Dutch inflection. The influence of AoO on vocabulary was more prominent than the influence of exposure. Regarding inflection, the reverse was found. Accuracy at using Frisian inflect…

  • Deaccentuation in Dutch as a second language

    Open AccessJohanneke Caspers, Evelyn Bosma et al.ARTICLELinguistics in the Netherlands2012

    A non-native accent in a second language is usually not restricted to the segmental domain — consonants and vowels — but is also noticeable in the suprasegmental domain, which includes phenomena such as word stress and sentence accent. The central question in this paper is whether advanced non-native speakers of Dutch produce pitch accent errors as a result of deaccentuation of given information in ‘verum focus’ sentences (‘... but I don’t READ b…