Supervisors: David Reibel Phone: tel. +31-20-525-2543 Address: Psycholinguistics, Language Pathology and Sign Linguistics Universiteit van Amsterdam Spuistraat 210, NL 1012 VT Amsterdam. Tel. +31-20-5253853, 3864 (secr.) email:a.e.baker@uva.nl email secr.:taalwetenschap-fgw@uva.nl homepage: https://home.medewerker.uva.nl/a.e.baker Linguistics Research Institute Amsterdam Centre for Language and Communication email: aclc-fgw@uva.nl http://hum.uva.nl/aclc
Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research Edited by Elma Blom and Sharon Unsworth [Language Learning & Language Teaching 27] 2010 ► pp. 245–268Experimental Methods in …, 2010
n this chapter we discuss children with hearing loss. We will refer to them as deaf, meaning chil... more n this chapter we discuss children with hearing loss. We will refer to them as deaf, meaning children with a hearing loss of minimally 70 dB without hearing aids. These deaf children can have a traditional hearing aid, or be implanted with a cochlear implant (CI) functioning then with this implant as a hearing-impaired child with a loss as little as 30 dB. They cannot, however, acquire a spoken language in exactly the same way as a hearing child. The heterogeneity of the population of deaf learners in comparison to other groups is a major issue. Some deaf children will acquire a sign language. This is most likely to be the case when these children have deaf parents. However these children form only 5-10% of the deaf child population in Western countries. The vast majority is born to hearing parents and can be provided with a sign language input, dependent on parental choice. They will certainly be provided with spoken language input. Deaf children of deaf parents are also usually exposed to a spoken language. In this chapter we will discuss both sign language acquisition and spoken language acquisition in the various types of children. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Phonological characteristics and frequencies of stems and allomorphs have been explored as possib... more Phonological characteristics and frequencies of stems and allomorphs have been explored as possible factors causing differences in production accuracies between allomorphic forms. However, previous findings are not consistent and the relative contributions of these factors are unclear. This study investigated target and erroneous productions of the Dutch diminutive, which has five allomorphs with varying type frequencies and of which the selection depends on the phonological characteristics of the stems. Typically developing children (N = 115, 5;1–10;3) were tested on their production of real and nonce diminutives. Linear mixed effects modelling was used to analyse the data taking nonverbal IQ into account. Type frequencies of the allomorphs and differences in phonological characteristics of the stems were found to be related to differences in production accuracies between the allomorphs. However, phonological characteristics of the stems appeared to have a bigger impact, mainly due...
How different are sign languages across the world? Are individual signs and signed sentences cons... more How different are sign languages across the world? Are individual signs and signed sentences constructed in the same way across these languages? What are the rules for having a conversation in a sign language? How do children and adults learn a sign language? How are sign languages processed in the brain? These questions and many more are addressed in this introductory book on sign linguistics using examples from more than thirty different sign languages. Comparisons are also made with spoken languages. This book can be used as a self-study book or as a text book for students of sign linguistics. Each chapter concludes with a summary, some test-yourself questions and assignments, as well as a list of recommended texts for further reading. The book is accompanied by a website containing assignments, video clips and links to web resources.
Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR, 2015
The effects of neighborhood density (ND) and lexical frequency on word recognition and the effect... more The effects of neighborhood density (ND) and lexical frequency on word recognition and the effects of phonotactic probability (PP) on nonword repetition (NWR) were examined to gain insight into processing at the lexical and sublexical levels in typically developing (TD) children and children with developmental language problems. Tasks measuring NWR and word recognition were administered to 5 groups of children: 2 groups of TD children (5 and 8 years old), children with specific language impairment (SLI), children with reading impairment (RI), and children with SLI+RI (all 7-8 years old). High ND had a negative effect on word recognition in the older TD children and in the children with RI only. There was no ND effect in the younger children or in the children with SLI, who all had lower receptive vocabulary scores than the age-matched TD children and the RI groups. For all groups, NWR items with low PP were more difficult to repeat than items with high PP. This effect was especially...
Are young deaf children bilingual? Beppie van den Bogaerde and Anne E. Baker 1. Introduction A de... more Are young deaf children bilingual? Beppie van den Bogaerde and Anne E. Baker 1. Introduction A deaf child growing up in a deaf signing family will learn the sign language offered in the language input just as a hearing child in a hearing family learns the spoken language offered in the ...
In this article, we discuss the mixed input offered by four profoundly deaf mothers and the mixed... more In this article, we discuss the mixed input offered by four profoundly deaf mothers and the mixed output of their deaf and hearing children. Muysken (2000) distinguishes different forms of code-mixing: insertion, alternation and congruent lexicalisation. We applied these definitions to these language data and found that the mothers used mainly the last type of code-mixing, namely congruent lexicalisation. This results in a mixed form of NGT (Nederlandse Gebarentaal, 'Dutch Sign Language') and Dutch, in which the structure of the utterance is grammatical in both NGT and Dutch. Lexical insertion also occurs, both in the basically NGT utterances and in the Dutch utterances. The deaf children (up to age three) are just beginning to become bilingual and hardly produce any mixed utterances. The hearing children, on the other hand, clearly show that they code-mix, under the influence of the language input.
The VALID Data Archive is an open multimedia data archive in which data from children and adults ... more The VALID Data Archive is an open multimedia data archive in which data from children and adults with language and/or communication problems are brought together. A pilot project, funded by CLARIN-NL, was carried out in which five existing data sets were curated. This pilot enabled us to build up experience in conserving different kinds of pathological language data in a searchable and persistent manner. These data sets reflect current research in language pathology rather well, both in the range of designs and the variety in pathological problems, such as Specific Language Impairment, deafness, dyslexia, and ADHD. In this paper, we present the VALID initiative, explain the curation process and discuss the materials of the data sets.
Articles and pronouns have already been extensively researched in various languages, including Du... more Articles and pronouns have already been extensively researched in various languages, including Dutch. Much less is known, however, about the pragmatic functions of these morphosyntactic forms during acquisition. The question to be investigated in the present research addresses the question of how Dutch children between 2;0 and 3;3 combine indefinite articles, definite/demonstrative articles and pronouns with pragmatic functions in reference. The research is located at the interface of morphosyntax and pragmatics. The choice of the form for a certain function is influenced by the child's ability to take on the listener's perspective. This ability is still developing in 2-year-olds, as is the acquisition of various morpho syntactic forms. The question is then, how do children combine forms with functions if they supposedly do not do this on the basis of the listener's knowledge of the referent. Three other possibilities are also investigated: specificity, discourse functio...
KNAW Narcis. Back to search results. Publication Cross-linguistic perspectives in sign language r... more KNAW Narcis. Back to search results. Publication Cross-linguistic perspectives in sign language research : selected... (2003). Pagina-navigatie: Main. ...
... Amsterdam, John Benjamins. Bogaerde, B. van den (2000) Input and interaction in deaf families... more ... Amsterdam, John Benjamins. Bogaerde, B. van den (2000) Input and interaction in deaf families. Ph.D. ... 183-206 Bogaerde, B. van den & Baker, AE (2006) Code mixing in mother-child ... http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/aebakerbeppie.vandenbogaerde@hu.nl Deaf studies / ...
Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research Edited by Elma Blom and Sharon Unsworth [Language Learning & Language Teaching 27] 2010 ► pp. 245–268Experimental Methods in …, 2010
n this chapter we discuss children with hearing loss. We will refer to them as deaf, meaning chil... more n this chapter we discuss children with hearing loss. We will refer to them as deaf, meaning children with a hearing loss of minimally 70 dB without hearing aids. These deaf children can have a traditional hearing aid, or be implanted with a cochlear implant (CI) functioning then with this implant as a hearing-impaired child with a loss as little as 30 dB. They cannot, however, acquire a spoken language in exactly the same way as a hearing child. The heterogeneity of the population of deaf learners in comparison to other groups is a major issue. Some deaf children will acquire a sign language. This is most likely to be the case when these children have deaf parents. However these children form only 5-10% of the deaf child population in Western countries. The vast majority is born to hearing parents and can be provided with a sign language input, dependent on parental choice. They will certainly be provided with spoken language input. Deaf children of deaf parents are also usually exposed to a spoken language. In this chapter we will discuss both sign language acquisition and spoken language acquisition in the various types of children. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Phonological characteristics and frequencies of stems and allomorphs have been explored as possib... more Phonological characteristics and frequencies of stems and allomorphs have been explored as possible factors causing differences in production accuracies between allomorphic forms. However, previous findings are not consistent and the relative contributions of these factors are unclear. This study investigated target and erroneous productions of the Dutch diminutive, which has five allomorphs with varying type frequencies and of which the selection depends on the phonological characteristics of the stems. Typically developing children (N = 115, 5;1–10;3) were tested on their production of real and nonce diminutives. Linear mixed effects modelling was used to analyse the data taking nonverbal IQ into account. Type frequencies of the allomorphs and differences in phonological characteristics of the stems were found to be related to differences in production accuracies between the allomorphs. However, phonological characteristics of the stems appeared to have a bigger impact, mainly due...
How different are sign languages across the world? Are individual signs and signed sentences cons... more How different are sign languages across the world? Are individual signs and signed sentences constructed in the same way across these languages? What are the rules for having a conversation in a sign language? How do children and adults learn a sign language? How are sign languages processed in the brain? These questions and many more are addressed in this introductory book on sign linguistics using examples from more than thirty different sign languages. Comparisons are also made with spoken languages. This book can be used as a self-study book or as a text book for students of sign linguistics. Each chapter concludes with a summary, some test-yourself questions and assignments, as well as a list of recommended texts for further reading. The book is accompanied by a website containing assignments, video clips and links to web resources.
Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR, 2015
The effects of neighborhood density (ND) and lexical frequency on word recognition and the effect... more The effects of neighborhood density (ND) and lexical frequency on word recognition and the effects of phonotactic probability (PP) on nonword repetition (NWR) were examined to gain insight into processing at the lexical and sublexical levels in typically developing (TD) children and children with developmental language problems. Tasks measuring NWR and word recognition were administered to 5 groups of children: 2 groups of TD children (5 and 8 years old), children with specific language impairment (SLI), children with reading impairment (RI), and children with SLI+RI (all 7-8 years old). High ND had a negative effect on word recognition in the older TD children and in the children with RI only. There was no ND effect in the younger children or in the children with SLI, who all had lower receptive vocabulary scores than the age-matched TD children and the RI groups. For all groups, NWR items with low PP were more difficult to repeat than items with high PP. This effect was especially...
Are young deaf children bilingual? Beppie van den Bogaerde and Anne E. Baker 1. Introduction A de... more Are young deaf children bilingual? Beppie van den Bogaerde and Anne E. Baker 1. Introduction A deaf child growing up in a deaf signing family will learn the sign language offered in the language input just as a hearing child in a hearing family learns the spoken language offered in the ...
In this article, we discuss the mixed input offered by four profoundly deaf mothers and the mixed... more In this article, we discuss the mixed input offered by four profoundly deaf mothers and the mixed output of their deaf and hearing children. Muysken (2000) distinguishes different forms of code-mixing: insertion, alternation and congruent lexicalisation. We applied these definitions to these language data and found that the mothers used mainly the last type of code-mixing, namely congruent lexicalisation. This results in a mixed form of NGT (Nederlandse Gebarentaal, 'Dutch Sign Language') and Dutch, in which the structure of the utterance is grammatical in both NGT and Dutch. Lexical insertion also occurs, both in the basically NGT utterances and in the Dutch utterances. The deaf children (up to age three) are just beginning to become bilingual and hardly produce any mixed utterances. The hearing children, on the other hand, clearly show that they code-mix, under the influence of the language input.
The VALID Data Archive is an open multimedia data archive in which data from children and adults ... more The VALID Data Archive is an open multimedia data archive in which data from children and adults with language and/or communication problems are brought together. A pilot project, funded by CLARIN-NL, was carried out in which five existing data sets were curated. This pilot enabled us to build up experience in conserving different kinds of pathological language data in a searchable and persistent manner. These data sets reflect current research in language pathology rather well, both in the range of designs and the variety in pathological problems, such as Specific Language Impairment, deafness, dyslexia, and ADHD. In this paper, we present the VALID initiative, explain the curation process and discuss the materials of the data sets.
Articles and pronouns have already been extensively researched in various languages, including Du... more Articles and pronouns have already been extensively researched in various languages, including Dutch. Much less is known, however, about the pragmatic functions of these morphosyntactic forms during acquisition. The question to be investigated in the present research addresses the question of how Dutch children between 2;0 and 3;3 combine indefinite articles, definite/demonstrative articles and pronouns with pragmatic functions in reference. The research is located at the interface of morphosyntax and pragmatics. The choice of the form for a certain function is influenced by the child's ability to take on the listener's perspective. This ability is still developing in 2-year-olds, as is the acquisition of various morpho syntactic forms. The question is then, how do children combine forms with functions if they supposedly do not do this on the basis of the listener's knowledge of the referent. Three other possibilities are also investigated: specificity, discourse functio...
KNAW Narcis. Back to search results. Publication Cross-linguistic perspectives in sign language r... more KNAW Narcis. Back to search results. Publication Cross-linguistic perspectives in sign language research : selected... (2003). Pagina-navigatie: Main. ...
... Amsterdam, John Benjamins. Bogaerde, B. van den (2000) Input and interaction in deaf families... more ... Amsterdam, John Benjamins. Bogaerde, B. van den (2000) Input and interaction in deaf families. Ph.D. ... 183-206 Bogaerde, B. van den & Baker, AE (2006) Code mixing in mother-child ... http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/aebakerbeppie.vandenbogaerde@hu.nl Deaf studies / ...
An introductory book to sign linguistics, aimed at first year students of (sign) linguistics, wit... more An introductory book to sign linguistics, aimed at first year students of (sign) linguistics, with 14 chapters, and examples from more than 20 sign languages.
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