Fred Weerman
List of John Benjamins publications in which Fred Weerman is involved.
2017 The impact of transparency and morpho-phonological cues in the acquisition of grammatical gender in sequential bilingual children and children with Specific Language Impairment: A cross-linguistic study Cross-linguistic Influence in Bilingualism: In honor of Aafke Hulk, Blom, Elma, Leonie Cornips and Jeannette Schaeffer (eds.), pp. 153–180 | Chapter
2014 The resilient nature of adjectival inflection in Dutch Adjectives in Germanic and Romance, Sleeman, Petra, Freek Van de Velde and Harry Perridon (eds.), pp. 113–146 | Article
The rich Germanic adjectival inflection dramatically eroded in the history of Dutch as part of a general process of deflection. At present, Dutch is left with what appears to be a vestigial structure: an alternation between an inflected form in schwa and an uninflected form, the distribution of… read more
2013 Verbal inflection errors in child L1: Syntax or phonology? Linguistics in the Netherlands 2013, Aalberse, Suzanne and Anita Auer (eds.), pp. 61–72 | Article
Song, Sundara & Demuth (2009) find an asymmetrical pattern for verbal inflection errors in child English: They observe more errors in sentence medial position than in sentence final position. To account for this asymmetry, they point towards the surface differences of both sentence positions. A… read more
2013 Synchronic variation and loss of case: Formal and informal language in a Dutch corpus of 17th-century Amsterdam texts Diachronica 30:3, pp. 353–381 | Article
A bias towards formal texts obscures our view of language change and gives a misleading impression of actual developments if ‘changes from below’ are in conflict with ‘changes from above,’ resulting from norms that are visible in particular in formal language. A corpus of 17th-century Amsterdam… read more
2007 Mismatches between phonology and syntax in French DP acquisition Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2005: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Utrecht, 8–10 December 2005, Baauw, Sergio, Frank Drijkoningen and Manuela Pinto (eds.), pp. 281–298 | Article
Children are known to produce non-adult-like structures, leaving out functional elements as determiners for instance. A number of previous studies account for determiner omission by assuming that the D-layer is not available at the onset of acquisition. However, these models are forced to postulate… read more
1987 Modern Dutch could be middle Dutcher than you think (and vica versa) Explanation and Linguistic Change, Koopman, Willem F., Frederike van der Leek, Olga Fischer and Roger Eaton (eds.), pp. 55–76 | Article
1986 Modern Dutch could be Middle Dutcher than you Think (And Vice Versa) Functional Explanations in Linguistics, Bossuyt, Alain (ed.), pp. 149–170 | Article