Paula Fikkert

Dados Biográficos

ID1453656
NOMEPaula Fikkert
PRENOMESPaula
SOBRENOMEFikkert
ASSINATURAFIKKERT P
AFILIAÇÕESRadboud University Nijmegen
ORCID0000-0001-7317-2100
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS28
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES27
TOTAL COMO AUTOR27
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1994
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2024
ÍNDICE H3

  • More Than Looks

    Open AccessHannah Lutzenberger, Marisa Casillas et al.ARTICLELanguage Learning and Development2024

    The lack of diversity in the language sciences has increasingly been criticized as it holds the potential for producing flawed theories. Research on (i) geographically diverse language communities and (ii) on sign languages is necessary to corroborate, sharpen, and extend existing theories. This study contributes a case study of adapting a well-established paradigm to study the acquisition of sign phonology in Kata Kolok, a sign language of rural…

  • Development of sign phonology in Kata Kolok

    Open AccessHannah Lutzenberger, Paula Fikkert et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2024

    Much like early speech, early signing is characterised by modifications. Sign language phonology has been analysed on the feature level since the 1980s, yet acquisition studies predominately examine handshape, location, and movement. This study is the first to analyse the acquisition of phonology in the sign language of a Balinese village with a vibrant signing community and applies the same feature analysis to adult and child data. We analyse lo…

  • Feature generalization in Dutch–German bilingual and monolingual children’s speech production

    Open AccessAntje Stoehr, Titia Benders et al.ARTICLEFirst Language2022

    Dutch and German employ voicing contrasts, but Dutch lacks the ‘voiced’ dorsal plosive /ɡ/. We exploited this accidental phonological gap, measuring the presence of prevoicing and voice onset time durations during speech production to determine (1) whether preliterate bilingual Dutch–German and monolingual Dutch-speaking children aged 3;6–6;0 years generalized voicing to /ɡ/ in Dutch; and (2) whether there was evidence for featural cross-linguist…

  • Formal variation in the Kata Kolok lexicon

    Open AccessHannah Lutzenberger, Connie De Vos et al.ARTICLEGlossa a journal of general…2021

    Sign language lexicons incorporate phonological specifications. Evidence from emerging sign languages suggests that phonological structure emerges gradually in a new language. In this study, we investigate variation in the form of signs across 20 deaf adult signers of Kata Kolok, a sign language that emerged spontaneously in a Balinese village community. Combining methods previously used for sign comparisons, we introduce a new numeric measure of…

  • The Acquisition of Word Prosody

    Paula Fikkert, Liquan Liu et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Language Prosody2020

    This chapter provides a state-of-the-art overview regarding the acquisition of three aspects of word prosody: lexical tone, pitch accent, and word stress. It also addresses word-learning studies where these prosodic features have been manipulated. Across these features, infants show evidence for perceptual tuning in the course of their first year: they prefer their native language patterns over non-native and infrequently encountered ones. Yet, i…

  • The effect of sociolinguistic factors on variation in the Kata Kolok lexicon

    Open AccessKatie Mudd, Hannah Lutzenberger et al.ARTICLEAsia-Pacific Language Variation2020

    (International Sign) Sign languages can be categorized as shared sign languages or deaf community sign languages, depending on the context in which they emerge. It has been suggested that shared sign languages exhibit more variation in the expression of everyday concepts than deaf community sign languages ( Meir, Israel, Sandler, Padden, & Aronoff, 2012 ). For deaf community sign languages, it has been shown that various sociolinguistic factors c…

  • De verwerving van woordklemtoon in perspectief

    Paula FikkertARTICLENederlandse taalkunde2020

    The acquisition of word stress in perspective This paper reflects on the acquisition of Dutch word stress reported in Nederlandse Taalkunde 1 (1996), where I argued that children systematically build up a grammar for word stress that fits a parameter framework without assuming innate knowledge. In the past 25 years this work has been praised and criticized because (a) the theoretical framework changed to Optimality Theory, (b) the proposed stages…

  • Quantifying Sources of Variability in Infancy Research Using the Infant-Directed-Speech Preference

    Open AccessMichael C Frank, Katie Alcock et al.ARTICLEAdvances in Methods and Practices…2020

    Psychological scientists have become increasingly concerned with issues related to methodology and replicability, and infancy researchers in particular face specific challenges related to replicability: For example, high-powered studies are difficult to conduct, testing conditions vary across labs, and different labs have access to different infant populations. Addressing these concerns, we report on a large-scale, multisite study aimed at (a) as…

  • Six‐month‐old infants recognize phrases in song and speech

    Open AccessLewis Edwin Hahn, Titia Benders et al.ARTICLEInfancy2020

    Infants exploit acoustic boundaries to perceptually organize phrases in speech. This prosodic parsing ability is well‐attested and is a cornerstone to the development of speech perception and grammar. However, infants also receive linguistic input in child songs. This study provides evidence that infants parse songs into meaningful phrasal units and replicates previous research for speech. Six‐month‐old Dutch infants (n = 80) were tested in the s…

  • No perceptual reorganization for Limburgian tones? A cross-linguistic investigation with 6- to 12-month-old infants

    Open AccessStefanie Ramachers, Susanne Brouwer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2018

    Despite the fact that many of the world's languages use lexical tone, the majority of language acquisition studies has focused on non-tone languages. Research on tone languages has typically investigated well-known tone languages such as Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese. The current study looked at a Limburgian dialect of Dutch that uses lexical pitch differences, albeit in a rather restricted way. Using a visual habituation paradigm, 6- to 12-mont…

  • The more, the better? Behavioral and neural correlates of frequent and infrequent vowel exposure

    Open AccessSho Tsuji, Paula Fikkert et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychobiology2017

    A central assumption in the perceptual attunement literature holds that exposure to a speech sound contrast leads to improvement in native speech sound processing. However, whether the amount of exposure matters for this process has not been put to a direct test. We elucidated indicators of frequency-dependent perceptual attunement by comparing 5-8-month-old Dutch infants' discrimination of tokens containing a highly frequent [hɪt-he:t] and a hig…

  • Second language attainment and first language attrition

    Open AccessAntje Stoehr, Titia Benders et al.ARTICLESecond language Research2017Citada por: 16Referências: 3

    Speech of late bilinguals has frequently been described in terms of cross-linguistic influence (CLI) from the native language (L1) to the second language (L2), but CLI from the L2 to the L1 has received relatively little attention. This article addresses L2 attainment and L1 attrition in voicing systems through measures of voice onset time (VOT) in two groups of Dutch-German late bilinguals in the Netherlands. One group comprises native speakers …

  • Dutch and German 3-Year-Olds’ Representations of Voicing Alternations

    Open AccessHelen Buckler, Paula FikkertARTICLELanguage and Speech2016Referências: 65

    The voicing contrast is neutralized syllable and word finally in Dutch and German, leading to alternations within the morphological paradigm (e.g., Dutch ‘bed(s)’, be[t]- be[d]en, German ‘dog(s)’, Hun[t]-Hun[d]e). Despite structural similarity, language-specific morphological, phonological and lexical properties impact on the distribution of this alternation in the two languages. Previous acquisition research has focused on one language only, pre…

  • Language-general biases and language-specific experience contribute to phonological detail in toddlers’ word representations

    Sho Tsuji, Paula Fikkert et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2016Referências: 3

    Although toddlers in their 2nd year of life generally have phonologically detailed representations of words, a consistent lack of sensitivity to certain kinds of phonological changes has been reported. The origin of these insensitivities is poorly understood, and uncovering their cause is crucial for obtaining a complete picture of early phonological development. The present study explored the origins of the insensitivity to the change from coron…

  • Building phonological lexical representations

    Open AccessSuzanne V H Van Der Feest, Paula FikkertARTICLEPhonology2015

    This paper contributes to the ongoing debate on how much detail young children's word representations contain. We investigate early representations of place of articulation and voicing contrasts, inspired by previously attested asymmetrical patterns in children's early word productions. We tested Dutch-learning 20- and 24-month-olds’ perception of these fundamentally different contrasts in a mispronunciation-detection paradigm. Our results show t…

  • Dutch and English toddlers' use of linguistic cues in predicting upcoming turn transitions

    Open AccessImme Lammertink, Marisa Casillas et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychology2015Citada por: 4Referências: 5

    Adults achieve successful coordination during conversation by using prosodic and lexicosyntactic cues to predict upcoming changes in speakership. We examined the relative weight of these linguistic cues in the prediction of upcoming turn structure by toddlers learning Dutch (Experiment 1; N = 21) and British English (Experiment 2; N = 20) and adult control participants (Dutch: N = 16; English: N = 20). We tracked participants' anticipatory eye mo…

  • Preschoolers' comprehension of pronouns and reflexives

    Open AccessChristina Bergmann, Mareike Paulus et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2012

    Pronouns seem to be acquired in an asymmetrical way, where children confuse the meaning of pronouns with reflexives up to the age of six, but not vice versa. Children's production of the same referential expressions is appropriate at the age of four. However, response-based tasks, the usual means to investigate child language comprehension, are very demanding given children's limited cognitive resources. Therefore, they might affect performance. …

  • The acquisition of the stop-fricative contrast in perception and production

    Open AccessNicole Altvater‐mackensen, Nicole Altvater-Mackensen et al.ARTICLELingua2010Citada por: 6Referências: 36

  • Language acquisition in optimality theory

    Open AccessPaula Fikkert, Helen De HoopARTICLELinguistics2009Citada por: 1Referências: 49

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  • Prosodic Preferences

    Paula Fikkert, Elan Dresher et al.CHAPTERHandbook of the History of English2008

  • On the acquisition of nasals in Dutch and German

    Open AccessNicole Altvater‐mackensen, Nicole Altvater-Mackensen et al.ARTICLELinguistics in the Netherlands2007

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  • The role of language-specific phonotactics in the acquisition of onset clusters

    Open AccessPaula Fikkert, Maria João FreitasARTICLELinguistics in the Netherlands2004

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  • The prosodic structure of prefixed words in the history of West Germanic

    Paula FikkertCHAPTERDevelopment in Prosodic Systems2003

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  • Development in Prosodic Systems

    Paula Fikkert, Haike JacobsBOOKDevelopment in Prosodic Systems2003

    This book brings together papers on various aspects of prosodic development from a generative linguistic perspective. It addresses issues such as the relationship between tone, stress and quantity, the evidence for prosodic change from metrics and discusses the role of analogy, language contact, and language acquisition in change. The unique combination of different methodologies and perspectives investigating development in prosodic systems prov…

  • Rhythm and semantics in the selection of linking elements

    Open AccessAnneke Neijt, Lose Krebbers et al.ARTICLELinguistics in the Netherlands2002

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