Steven Gillis
List of John Benjamins publications in which Steven Gillis is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1387-6732 | E‑ISSN 1570‑6001
Book series
Titles
The Acquisition of Dutch
Edited by Steven Gillis and Annick De Houwer
In the present-day context of cross-linguistic perspectives on language acquisition, The Acquisition of Dutch offers a much needed overview of the wealth of Dutch child language research that was hitherto lacking. Its comprehensive coverage in terms of topics, its many new theoretical contributions… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 52] 1998. xvi, 444 pp.
Perspectives on Child Language
Edited by Annick De Houwer and Steven Gillis
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 2] 1987. 161 pp.
2022 Artificial intelligence Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 91–111 | Chapter
2020 Identificeerbaarheid van kinderen met een gehoorbeperking: Een vergelijkende benadering Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 9:1/2, pp. 1–20 | Article
Studies on the speech and language development of hearing-impaired children often focus on (deviations in) the children’s speech production. However, it is unclear if listeners also perceive differences between the speech of normally hearing and hearing-impaired children. This contribution wants… read more
2020 Language development in children from different SES backgrounds: Babbling onset and consonant characteristics Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 9:1/2, pp. 132–161 | Article
The aim of the study is to analyze prelexical speech development in young children with a different socio-economic status (SES): children from low SES backgrounds (lowSES) are compared with mid-to-high SES (mhSES) children. Timing of the onset of babbling and the consonantal development in… read more
2017 Syllable type development in toddlers acquiring Dutch Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 6:1, pp. 119–146 | Article
Compiling syllable type inventories from children’s spontaneous speech is all but straightforward: so far studies vary considerably in their methodologies and consequently the selection of the speech samples differs. This paper shows that different methodologies for selecting a speech sample… read more
2017 Chapter 10. Acquisition of phonological variables of a Flemish dialect by children raised in Standard Dutch: Some considerations on the learning mechanisms Acquiring Sociolinguistic Variation, De Vogelaer, Gunther and Matthias Katerbow (eds.), pp. 267–304 | Chapter
This study investigates the learning mechanisms underlying the acquisition of a dialect as a second language. We focus on the acquisition of phonological features of a Flemish dialect by children with Standard Dutch or a regional variety of Dutch as their first language. Data were gathered by means… read more
2016 Foundations of the early root category: Analyses of linguistic input to Hebrewspeaking children Acquisition and Development of Hebrew: From infancy to adolescence, Berman, Ruth A. (ed.), pp. 95–134 | Article
The Semitic root is commonly assumed to be the main lexical prime in Hebrew, relating morphological families in the major word classes. Psycholinguistic evidence supports the role of the consonantal root in acquisition and processing of Hebrew, from children’s early ability to extract roots from… read more
2016 A comparison of maternal and child language in normally-hearing and hearing-impaired children with cochlear implants Language, Interaction and Acquisition 7:2, pp. 145–179 | Article
The present study examines the amount of input and output in congenitally hearing-impaired children with a cochlear implant (CI) and normally-hearing children (NH) and their normally-hearing mothers. The aim of the study was threefold: (a) to investigate the input provided by the two groups of… read more
2015 Waarom dromedarissen maar één 〈m〉 hebben Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 4:2, pp. 265–271 | Article
This contribution focuses on the spelling of single consonants after a vowel without primary stress — and therefore a short duration — in polysyllabic Dutch words, e.g. kanaal (‘canal’) and dromedaris (‘dromedary’). The single consonant can be explained on the basis of the (Dutch-oriented) standard… read more
2014 Development of adjective frequencies across semantic classes: A growth curve analysis of child speech and child-directed speech Language, Interaction and Acquisition 5:2, pp. 185–226 | Article
This paper is a longitudinal investigation of adjective use by children aged 1;8−2;8, speaking Dutch, German, French, Hebrew, and Turkish, and by their caregivers. Each adjective token in transcripts of spontaneous speech was coded for semantic class. The development of adjective use in each… read more
2010 Betrouwbaarheid Van Spontane Kindertaalanalyses: Consonantinventarissen Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen 83, pp. 67–77 | Article
Consonant inventories are commonly used phonological measures for analysing spontaneous speech data of young children with a normal or disordered language development. However, a standard procedure is lacking. In this study, different consonant inventories are derived following the guidelines of… read more
2009 Language acquisition Cognition and Pragmatics, Sandra, Dominiek, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 201–249 | Article
2009 Artificial intelligence Cognition and Pragmatics, Sandra, Dominiek, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 16–40 | Article
2008 Core morphology in child directed speech: Crosslinguistic corpus analyses of noun plurals Corpora in Language Acquisition Research: History, methods, perspectives, Behrens, Heike (ed.), pp. 25–60 | Article
2007 13. Diminutives provide multiple benefits for language acquisition The Acquisition of Diminutives: A cross-linguistic perspective, Savickienė, Ineta and Wolfgang U. Dressler (eds.), pp. 319–342 | Chapter
This chapter explores the hypothesis that diminutive usage in child-directed speech may provide multiple benefits for language acquisition. We summarize a series of experiments that exposed naïve English-speaking adults to Dutch or Russian diminutives, and tested their ability to isolate words in… read more
2007 7. A longitudinal study of the acquisition of diminutives in Dutch The Acquisition of Diminutives: A cross-linguistic perspective, Savickienė, Ineta and Wolfgang U. Dressler (eds.), pp. 183–206 | Chapter
The acquisition of diminutives in the language of three Dutch-speaking children from the Netherlands is described on the basis of longitudinal observational data between the age of 21 and 36 months. It is shown that diminutives occur early, i.e. in the first stage of vocabulary development, and… read more
2006 Vowel labelling in a pluricentric language: Flemish and Dutch labellers at work Linguistics in the Netherlands 2006, Weijer, Jeroen van de and Bettelou Los (eds.), pp. 126–136 | Article
2005 Language acquisition in children with a cochlear implant Developmental Theory and Language Disorders, Fletcher, Paul and Jon F. Miller (eds.), pp. 95–119 | Article
2003 Language acquisition Handbook of Pragmatics: 2002 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–58 | Article
2002 10. Language-specific effects on the development of written morphology Morphology 2000: Selected papers from the 9th Morphology Meeting, Vienna, 24–28 February 2000, Bendjaballah, Sabrina, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Oskar E. Pfeiffer and Maria D. Voeikova (eds.), pp. 129–136 | Chapter
2001 Predicting Grammatical Classes from Phonological Cues: An Empirical Test Approaches to Bootstrapping: Phonological, lexical, syntactic and neurophysiological aspects of early language acquisition, Weissenborn, Jürgen and Barbara Höhle (eds.), pp. 189–229 | Article
This paper investigates to what extent the grammatical class(es) of a word can be predicted on the basis of phonological and prosodic information only. We report on several experiments with an artificial learning system which has to assign English word forms to their appropriate grammatical class,… read more
1998 Dutch child language: An overview The Acquisition of Dutch, Gillis, Steven and Annick De Houwer (eds.), pp. 1–100 | Article
1998 Introduction The Acquisition of Dutch, Gillis, Steven and Annick De Houwer (eds.), pp. xiii–xvi | Miscellaneous
1998 William O'Grady. Syntactic Development Functions of Language 5:1, pp. 126–127 | To be specified
1995 Artificial intelligence Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 61–80 | Article
1987 Introduction Perspectives on Child Language, De Houwer, Annick and Steven Gillis (eds.), pp. 7–9 | Miscellaneous
1987 Words and Categories at the Onset of Language Acquisition: Product Versus Process Perspectives on Child Language, De Houwer, Annick and Steven Gillis (eds.), pp. 37–53 | Article
1986 Le Long Cheminement Vers le Premier Emploi des Mots Lingvisticæ Investigationes 10:1, pp. 67–83 | Miscellaneous