The production of SE and SELF anaphors in Spanish and Dutch children

Author(s):  
Sergio Baauw ◽  
Marieke Kuipers ◽  
Esther Ruigendijk ◽  
Fernando Cuetos
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2014 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 129-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris Strangmann ◽  
Anneke Slomp ◽  
Angeliek van Hout

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). Using a referent-selection task, we manipulated number on the verb and postverbal NP to create unambiguous wh-questions. Moreover, the questions were preceded by a discourse which established a topic, relating either to the wh-referent or the postverbal NP referent. Nevertheless, both 5- and 8-year-olds misinterpreted object questions as subject questions, ignoring the number and topicality cues to resolve the (local) ambiguity of which-questions. Our results confirm the effect of a subject-first bias in children’s interpretation of wh-questions. We conclude that topicality, in combination with number agreement, is not strong enough to overrule this subject-first bias.


1986 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Ruiken ◽  
Klaus Konig ◽  
Gert-Jan Truin ◽  
Fons Plasschaert

2013 ◽  
Vol 72 (OCE5) ◽  
Author(s):  
E. H. M. Temme ◽  
H. M. E. Bakker ◽  
M. C. C. Brosens ◽  
J. Verkaik-Kloosterman ◽  
J. M. A. van Raaij ◽  
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2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 649-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frouwien D. van der Hoek ◽  
Ilse Stuive ◽  
Heleen A. Reinders-Messelink ◽  
Lian Holty ◽  
Alida C.E. de Blécourt ◽  
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Author(s):  
Ivonne P. M. Derks ◽  
Sara Hannani ◽  
Florianne O. L. Vehmeijer ◽  
Henning Tiemeier ◽  
Pauline W. Jansen

AbstractWhile studies suggest potential influences of childhood adversities on obesity development in adulthood, less is known about the short-term association in children. We examined the association between a wide range of life events experienced in the first ten years of life (including maltreatment and milder adversities) and body composition in 5333 ten-year old Dutch children. In structured interviews, mothers retrospectively reported on their children’s experience of 24 events. BMI was calculated, and fat mass index and fat free mass index were determined by dual-x-ray absorptiometry scanning. Linear regressions showed that, unadjusted, a higher number of life events was associated with higher BMI and body composition. However, associations attenuated to non-significance after adjustment for covariates. Similar findings were observed for maltreatment and milder life events. Thus, the number of experienced life events was not associated with body composition in middle childhood. Rather, other factors, like socioeconomic conditions, accounted for the relationship between life events and weight development in children.


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