Heike Behrens

List of John Benjamins publications in which Heike Behrens is involved.

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Corpora in Language Acquisition Research: History, methods, perspectives

Edited by Heike Behrens

Corpus research forms the backbone of research on children's language development. Leading researchers in the field present a survey on the history of data collection, different types of data, and the treatment of methodological problems. Morphologically and syntactically parsed corpora allow for… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 6] 2008. xxx, 234 pp.

Behrens, Heike 2020 From grammatical categories to processes of categorization: The acquisition of morphosyntax from a usage-based perspective Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition: How children use their environment to learn, Rowland, Caroline F., Anna L. Theakston, Ben Ambridge and Katherine E. Twomey (eds.), pp. 91–112 | Chapter

Current version of usage-based grammars propose that grammatical categories are language-specific local generalizations rather than universal building blocks of linguistic structure. This changes the perspective on what learning syntax or morphology is about. Instead of activating innate… read more

Behrens, Heike 2011 Cues to form and function in the acquisition of German number and case inflection Experience, Variation and Generalization: Learning a first language, Arnon, Inbal and Eve V. Clark (eds.), pp. 35–52 | Article

German children seem to acquire plural marking with apparent ease, although plural is encoded by several allomorphs with different degrees of predictability. Data from a dense database of a boy between age 2;0 and 2;5 show that all plural allomorphs are abstracted early and are used for… read more

Verspoor, Marjolijn H. and Heike Behrens 2011 Dynamic Systems Theory and a usage-based approach to Second Language Development A Dynamic Approach to Second Language Development: Methods and techniques, Verspoor, Marjolijn H., Kees de Bot and Wander Lowie (eds.), pp. 25–38 | Article

Behrens, Heike 2008 Corpora in language acquisition research: History, methods, perspectives Corpora in Language Acquisition Research: History, methods, perspectives, Behrens, Heike (ed.), pp. xi–xxx | Miscellaneous