David Peeters
Biographic Data
| ID | 922518 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Peeters |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Peeters |
| SIGNATURE | PEETERS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tilburg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7974-9246 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Discourse genre predicts demonstrative use in text
In German written language, demonstrative expressions like diese or die play an important part in connecting discourse referents and making larger stretches of discourse coherent. But what makes a writer decide to use a proximal ( diese-dieser-dieses, hier ) or a distal ( die-der-das , da ) demonstrative variant? Using a free writing production experiment, we investigated the role of two types of factors suggested to drive demonstrative variance …
Behavioral Research Paradigms for Bilingual Language Production
Bilinguals possess the ability to express themselves in more than one language and typically do so in contextually rich and dynamic settings. In the past, research on bilingual language production has often made use of experimental techniques in which single participants produce single words in well‐controlled static laboratory settings. Here we first review prominent paradigms in this domain, in particular bilingual picture naming, cued language…
Discourse genre predicts demonstrative use in text
In written language, demonstratives such as this and that allow writers to produce coherent texts and readers to build up a consistent mental model of the message that is conveyed. But what makes a writer decide to use one demonstrative (e.g., this) over another (e.g., that)? Here we present experimental evidence, from both Dutch and Mandarin, that discourse genre is the main predictor of writers' demonstrative use in text. Specifically, the resu…
Bilingualism
The advent of personal computers in the late twentieth century introduced new research methodologies, transforming experimental bilingualism into a robust field. At the time, language research relied on modular, largely monolingual bottom-up approaches like the Language User Framework. Harris's Cognitive Processes in Bilinguals (1992) marked a turning point, stimulating inquiries into core issues concerning bilingual representation, co-activation…
Author Correction
Iconicity and Gesture Jointly Facilitate Learning of Second Language Signs at First Exposure in Hearing Nonsigners
When learning spoken second language (L2), words overlapping in form and meaning with one's native language (L1) help break into the new language. When nonsigning speakers learn a sign language as L2, such overlaps are absent because of the modality differences (L1: speech, L2: sign). In such cases, nonsigning speakers might use iconic form-meaning mappings in signs or their own gestural experience as gateways into the to-be-acquired sign languag…
Orthographic and semantic priming effects in neighbour cognates
To investigate how orthography and semantics interact during bilingual visual word recognition, Dutch–English bilinguals made lexical decisions in two masked priming experiments. Dutch primes and English targets were presented that were either neighbour cognates (boek – BOOK), noncognate translations (kooi – CAGE), orthographically related neighbours (neus – NEWS), or unrelated words (huid - COAT). Prime durations of 50 ms (Experiment 1) and 83 m…
What's your point? Insights from virtual reality on the relation between intention and action in the production of pointing gestures
Human communication involves the process of translating intentions into communicative actions. But how exactly do our intentions surface in the visible communicative behavior we display? Here we focus on pointing gestures, a fundamental building block of everyday communication, and investigate whether and how different types of underlying intent modulate the kinematics of the pointing hand and the brain activity preceding the gestural movement. I…
Spatial communication systems across languages reflect universal action constraints
The extent to which languages share properties reflecting the non-linguistic constraints of the speakers who speak them is key to the debate regarding the relationship between language and cognition. A critical case is spatial communication, where it has been argued that semantic universals should exist, if anywhere. Here, using an experimental paradigm able to separate variation within a language from variation between languages, we tested the u…
Explaining variance in writers’ use of demonstratives
Demonstratives such as this and that are among the most frequently used words in texts. But what are the factors that determine whether a writer uses one demonstrative form (proximal this) or another (distal that)? Here we report a large-scale corpus analysis in three written genres to empirically contrast theories based on differences in referent activation and prominence with a recent proposal suggesting that genre is the main driver of written…
Understanding demonstrative reference in text
Endophoric demonstratives such as this and that are among the most frequently used words in written texts. Nevertheless, it remains unclear how exactly they should be subdivided and classified in terms of their different types of use. Here, we develop a new taxonomy of endophoric demonstratives based on a large-scale corpus including three written genres: news items, encyclopedic texts, and book reviews. The taxonomy enables analysts to reliably …
A conceptual framework for the study of demonstrative reference
Language allows us to efficiently communicate about the things in the world around us. Seemingly simple words like this and that are a cornerstone of our capability to refer, as they contribute to guiding the attention of our addressee to the specific entity we are talking about. Such demonstratives are acquired early in life, ubiquitous in everyday talk, often closely tied to our gestural communicative abilities, and present in all spoken langua…
Cross-linguistic differences in demonstrative systems
Bilingual switching between languages and listeners
Cross-linguistic differences in demonstrative systems
Spatial communication systems across languages reflect universal action constraints
The extent to which languages share properties reflecting the non-linguistic constraints of the speakers who speak them is key to the debate regarding the relationship between language and cognition. A critical case is spatial communication, where it has been argued that semantic universals should exist, if anywhere. Here, using an experimental paradigm able to separate variation within a language from variation between languages, we tested the u…
Bilingual switching between languages and listeners
A conceptual framework for the study of demonstrative reference
Language allows us to efficiently communicate about the things in the world around us. Seemingly simple words like this and that are a cornerstone of our capability to refer, as they contribute to guiding the attention of our addressee to the specific entity we are talking about. Such demonstratives are acquired early in life, ubiquitous in everyday talk, often closely tied to our gestural communicative abilities, and present in all spoken langua…
Cross-linguistic differences in demonstrative systems
Explaining variance in writers’ use of demonstratives
Demonstratives such as this and that are among the most frequently used words in texts. But what are the factors that determine whether a writer uses one demonstrative form (proximal this) or another (distal that)? Here we report a large-scale corpus analysis in three written genres to empirically contrast theories based on differences in referent activation and prominence with a recent proposal suggesting that genre is the main driver of written…
Understanding demonstrative reference in text
Endophoric demonstratives such as this and that are among the most frequently used words in written texts. Nevertheless, it remains unclear how exactly they should be subdivided and classified in terms of their different types of use. Here, we develop a new taxonomy of endophoric demonstratives based on a large-scale corpus including three written genres: news items, encyclopedic texts, and book reviews. The taxonomy enables analysts to reliably …
Orthographic and semantic priming effects in neighbour cognates
To investigate how orthography and semantics interact during bilingual visual word recognition, Dutch–English bilinguals made lexical decisions in two masked priming experiments. Dutch primes and English targets were presented that were either neighbour cognates (boek – BOOK), noncognate translations (kooi – CAGE), orthographically related neighbours (neus – NEWS), or unrelated words (huid - COAT). Prime durations of 50 ms (Experiment 1) and 83 m…
What's your point? Insights from virtual reality on the relation between intention and action in the production of pointing gestures
Human communication involves the process of translating intentions into communicative actions. But how exactly do our intentions surface in the visible communicative behavior we display? Here we focus on pointing gestures, a fundamental building block of everyday communication, and investigate whether and how different types of underlying intent modulate the kinematics of the pointing hand and the brain activity preceding the gestural movement. I…
Spatial communication systems across languages reflect universal action constraints
The extent to which languages share properties reflecting the non-linguistic constraints of the speakers who speak them is key to the debate regarding the relationship between language and cognition. A critical case is spatial communication, where it has been argued that semantic universals should exist, if anywhere. Here, using an experimental paradigm able to separate variation within a language from variation between languages, we tested the u…
Author Correction
Iconicity and Gesture Jointly Facilitate Learning of Second Language Signs at First Exposure in Hearing Nonsigners
When learning spoken second language (L2), words overlapping in form and meaning with one's native language (L1) help break into the new language. When nonsigning speakers learn a sign language as L2, such overlaps are absent because of the modality differences (L1: speech, L2: sign). In such cases, nonsigning speakers might use iconic form-meaning mappings in signs or their own gestural experience as gateways into the to-be-acquired sign languag…
Behavioral Research Paradigms for Bilingual Language Production
Bilinguals possess the ability to express themselves in more than one language and typically do so in contextually rich and dynamic settings. In the past, research on bilingual language production has often made use of experimental techniques in which single participants produce single words in well‐controlled static laboratory settings. Here we first review prominent paradigms in this domain, in particular bilingual picture naming, cued language…
Discourse genre predicts demonstrative use in text
In written language, demonstratives such as this and that allow writers to produce coherent texts and readers to build up a consistent mental model of the message that is conveyed. But what makes a writer decide to use one demonstrative (e.g., this) over another (e.g., that)? Here we present experimental evidence, from both Dutch and Mandarin, that discourse genre is the main predictor of writers' demonstrative use in text. Specifically, the resu…
Bilingualism
The advent of personal computers in the late twentieth century introduced new research methodologies, transforming experimental bilingualism into a robust field. At the time, language research relied on modular, largely monolingual bottom-up approaches like the Language User Framework. Harris's Cognitive Processes in Bilinguals (1992) marked a turning point, stimulating inquiries into core issues concerning bilingual representation, co-activation…
Discourse genre predicts demonstrative use in text
In German written language, demonstrative expressions like diese or die play an important part in connecting discourse referents and making larger stretches of discourse coherent. But what makes a writer decide to use a proximal ( diese-dieser-dieses, hier ) or a distal ( die-der-das , da ) demonstrative variant? Using a free writing production experiment, we investigated the role of two types of factors suggested to drive demonstrative variance …
Linguistics (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Demonstrative (6 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (4 works) · Deixis (3 works)