Joris Wolterbeek

List of John Benjamins publications in which Joris Wolterbeek is involved.

Article

Wolterbeek, Joris, Lisa van Dijke, Lotte Hogeweg and Caitlin Meyer 2017 Learning to suspend implicated contrast: The acquisition of ook in Dutch Linguistics in the Netherlands 2017, Lestrade, Sander and Bert Le Bruyn (eds.), pp. 143–155 | Article

Children acquire the meaning of ook ‘also’ in Dutch relatively late (Bergsma 2006), although this focus particle is highly frequent. We argue that this late acquisition is caused by a pragmatic rule: contrastive implicature. We follow Sæbø (2004), who argues that additives are used because… read more