This volume contains papers from the 1974, 1975, and 1976 meetings of the annual conference of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands (Algemene Vereniging voor Taalwetenschap), held in Amsterdam. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members with an opportunity to report on their work in… read more
This paper argues that a seemingly cognitive phenomenon, that of imitation in early child speech (the parroting of a model by the child), when approached in a formal manner, can provide unexpected insight into the nature of the developing grammar. With the help of a large corpus of – in principle –… read more
The voice phenomena of Dutch are among the most complex and elusive described in the (theoretical) literature of the past few decades (Lombardi 1999, Wetzels & Mascaró 2001). This paper starts by giving a comprehensive overview of the pertinent facts, and then shows how theories such as the… read more