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View article: Sociopragmatic pronouns in Limburgian: inferring speakers’ agency from self-reported automaticity, attitudes, and metalinguistic awareness
Sociopragmatic pronouns in Limburgian: inferring speakers’ agency from self-reported automaticity, attitudes, and metalinguistic awareness Open
How much of everyday language use takes place on autopilot, how much are speakers aware of, and how do their attitudes relate to this? In particular, how do these factors together account for variation between speakers? Limburgian, a regio…
View article: Limited input: Circumstances and consequences
Limited input: Circumstances and consequences Open
Aims and Objectives: The aim of this introductory chapter to Effects of Limited Input, a Special Issue of the International Journal of Bilingualism, is to give a brief overview of how the topic of limited linguistic input is situated withi…
View article: Individual variation in contact effects – stability, convergence, and divergence
Individual variation in contact effects – stability, convergence, and divergence Open
In this study, we investigate the contact effects of stability, convergence, and divergence regarding the use of the same linguistic construction in the same contact situation. To do that, we collected experimental production and judgment …
View article: Minds
Minds Open
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View article: The Netherlands Urban Field Station
The Netherlands Urban Field Station Open
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View article: Is ‘he’ still here?
Is ‘he’ still here? Open
Various non-standard language varieties in the Netherlands traditionally allow for the use of masculine personal subject pronouns (i.e. regionally distinct variants of hij ‘he’) in reference to women. While this practice is well-documented…
View article: The Netherlands Urban Field Station
The Netherlands Urban Field Station Open
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View article: ‘It’ Is Not for Everyone: Variation in Speakers’ Evaluation of Sociopragmatic Pronouns in Limburgian
‘It’ Is Not for Everyone: Variation in Speakers’ Evaluation of Sociopragmatic Pronouns in Limburgian Open
This paper explores the different ways in which speakers of Limburgian think and feel about sociopragmatic pronouns in their dialect, in which women can traditionally be referred to with both ziej ‘she’ and het ‘she’ (lit. ‘it’). Previous …
View article: Investigating language transfer from a usage-based perspective
Investigating language transfer from a usage-based perspective Open
Aims and objectives: The aim of this study is to investigate language contact from a usage-based perspective. In particular, we test the explanatory power of a schematicity continuum, one of the central assumptions within usage-based appro…
View article: On <i>sisters</i> and <i>zussen</i>: integrating semasiological and onomasiological perspectives on the use of English person-reference nouns in Belgian-Dutch teenage chat messages
On <i>sisters</i> and <i>zussen</i>: integrating semasiological and onomasiological perspectives on the use of English person-reference nouns in Belgian-Dutch teenage chat messages Open
This paper targets the division of labor between borrowed English forms and heritage alternatives in Belgian-Dutch youth language. Through lexical semantic analysis of a youth-language corpus containing over 450,000 private instant message…
View article: Host language proficiency has a causal effect on immigrants’ income, savings and financial wealth
Host language proficiency has a causal effect on immigrants’ income, savings and financial wealth Open
We study the effect of Dutch proficiency on immigrants’ labour market performance, savings and financial wealth in the Netherlands. Different from past research, we had participants (N=659) take a language proficiency test apart from self-…
View article: Similarity in Language Transfer – Investigating Transfer of Light Verb Constructions From Dutch to German
Similarity in Language Transfer – Investigating Transfer of Light Verb Constructions From Dutch to German Open
Bilingual speakers of typologically closely related languages tend to frequently experience language transfer, which suggests that similarity between languages is likely to play an important role in the transfer process. In this paper, we …
View article: Individual corpus data predict variation in judgments: testing the usage-based nature of mental representations in a language transfer setting
Individual corpus data predict variation in judgments: testing the usage-based nature of mental representations in a language transfer setting Open
This study puts the usage-based assumption that our linguistic knowledge is based on usage to the test. To do so, we explore individual variation in speakers’ language use as established based on corpus data – both in terms of frequency of…
View article: A Usage-Based Approach to Pattern Finding: The Traceback Method Meets Code-Mixing
A Usage-Based Approach to Pattern Finding: The Traceback Method Meets Code-Mixing Open
Usage-based approaches have become increasingly important in research on language acquisition and recently also in bilingual first language acquisition. Lexically specific patterns, such as What’s this? and frame-and-slot patterns, such as…
View article: Comparing forward and reverse transfer from Dutch to German
Comparing forward and reverse transfer from Dutch to German Open
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: This study compares transfer from Dutch to German by native Dutch speakers who learned German as a second language (forward transfer: L1 to L2) and by native German speakers who are living in…
View article: Investigating Contact-induced Change in Heritage Turkish: A Study on the Use of Temporal -DIK Converbial Constructions
Investigating Contact-induced Change in Heritage Turkish: A Study on the Use of Temporal -DIK Converbial Constructions Open
This study presents an analysis of a contact-induced language change process concerning temporal -DIK converbial constructions in the variety of Turkish spoken in the Netherlands (henceforth, Dutch Turkish). This study particularly aims to…
View article: Language choice in psychotherapy of multilingual clients: multilingual therapists’ perspective
Language choice in psychotherapy of multilingual clients: multilingual therapists’ perspective Open
Language is an essential part of psychotherapeutic work. In psychotherapy involving more than one language and/or culture, acknowledging the impact of the therapist’s and the client’s language(s) can facilitate achieving the most beneficia…
View article: Language Choice in Psychotherapy of Multilingual Clients
Language Choice in Psychotherapy of Multilingual Clients Open
Language is an essential part of psychotherapeutic work. In psychotherapy involving more than one language and/or culture, acknowledging the impact of the therapist’s and the client’s language(s) can facilitate achieving the most beneficia…
View article: Usage-Based Contact Linguistics: Effects of Frequency and Similarity in Language Contact
Usage-Based Contact Linguistics: Effects of Frequency and Similarity in Language Contact Open
The influence of usage frequency, and particularly of linguistic similarity on human linguistic behavior and linguistic change in situations of language contact are well documented in contact linguistics literature. However, a theoretical …
View article: Entrenchment effects in code-mixing: individual differences in German-English bilingual children
Entrenchment effects in code-mixing: individual differences in German-English bilingual children Open
Following a usage-based approach to language acquisition, lexically specific patterns are considered to be important building blocks for language productivity and feature heavily both in child-directed speech and in the early speech of chi…
View article: Stereotyping language choice in times of conflict
Stereotyping language choice in times of conflict Open
The article studies the impact language attitudes have on the stereotyping of speakers in a context of ethnic conflict. We investigate the collision between the public and private language identities of Russian- and Ukrainian-speaking citi…
View article: L2 knowledge facilitating L3 learning: the role of Russian linguistic factors in understanding of Ukrainian by Estonians
L2 knowledge facilitating L3 learning: the role of Russian linguistic factors in understanding of Ukrainian by Estonians Open
This paper reports on an empirical investigation of how knowledge of L2 Russian can facilitate the acquisition of passive knowledge of L3 Ukrainian by speakers of L1 Estonian. The experiment was conducted with 30 speakers of Estonian as L1…
View article: Heritage languages
Heritage languages Open
Heritage languages, such as the Turkish varieties spoken in Berlin or the Spanish used in Los Angeles, are non-dominant languages, often with little prestige. Their speakers also speak the dominant language of the country they live in. Oft…
View article: Entrenchment and productivity: The role of input in the code-mixing of a German-English bilingual child
Entrenchment and productivity: The role of input in the code-mixing of a German-English bilingual child Open
This paper investigates the role of input in the code-mixing (CM) of a German-English bilingual child between the age of 2;3 until 3;11. Supporting a usage-based approach to linguistic theory, multiword units are shown to play an important…
View article: Language contact does not drive gesture transfer: Heritage speakers maintain language specific gesture patterns in each language
Language contact does not drive gesture transfer: Heritage speakers maintain language specific gesture patterns in each language Open
This paper investigates whether there are changes in gesture rate when speakers of two languages with different gesture rates (Turkish-high gesture; Dutch-low gesture) come into daily contact. We analyzed gestures produced by second-genera…
View article: Turkish-Dutch bilinguals maintain language-specific reference tracking strategies in elicited narratives
Turkish-Dutch bilinguals maintain language-specific reference tracking strategies in elicited narratives Open
Aim: This paper examines whether second-generation Turkish heritage speakers in the Netherlands follow language-specific patterns of reference tracking in Turkish and Dutch, focusing on discourse status and pragmatic contexts as factors th…
View article: Role of structural priming in contact-induced change: Subject pronoun expression in L1 Turkish by Turkish-Dutch bilinguals
Role of structural priming in contact-induced change: Subject pronoun expression in L1 Turkish by Turkish-Dutch bilinguals Open
Subject pronoun expression has been extensively studied for effects of language contact, but it is fairly recent that these studies started including cross-language structural priming paradigms. The earlier studies on subject pronoun use i…
View article: Slot-and-Frame Schemas in the Language of a Polish- and English-Speaking Child: The Impact of Usage Patterns on the Switch Placement
Slot-and-Frame Schemas in the Language of a Polish- and English-Speaking Child: The Impact of Usage Patterns on the Switch Placement Open
How does the bilingual child assemble her first multiword constructions? Can switch placement in bilingual combinations be explained by language usage? This study traces the emergence of frozen and semi-productive patterns throughout the d…