René Kager
List of John Benjamins publications in which René Kager is involved.
Titles
Linguistics in the Netherlands 1998
Edited by Renée van Bezooijen and René Kager
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the twenty-ninth annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands, held in Utrecht on January, 17, 1998. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members of the society with an opportunity to report on their work in progress. At… read more
2022 Simultaneous bilinguals who do not speak a tone language show enhancement in pitch sensitivity but not in executive function Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:3, pp. 310–346 | Article
Previous studies have reported perceptual advantages, such as when discriminating non-native linguistic or musical pitch differences, among first-year infants growing up in bilingual over monolingual environments. It is unclear whether such effects should be attributed to bilinguals’ enhanced… read more
2017 Perception of tones in Mandarin and Dutch adult listeners Language and Linguistics 18:4, pp. 622–646 | Article
This paper examines the nature of categorical perception (CP) effects in Mandarin and Dutch adult listeners through identification and discrimination tasks using lexical tonal contrasts and through the CP index analysis. In identification tasks, Mandarin listeners identify tones in accordance… read more
2017 Keeping up with the monolinguals: An equal pace of vocabulary development between Dutch monolingual and bilingual infants in the first 18 months after birth Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 6:1, pp. 41–64 | Article
Previous studies investigating possible differences between monolingual and bilingual infants’ vocabulary development have produced mixed results. The current study examines the size of the total receptive and expressive vocabulary, total conceptual vocabulary, and specific Dutch vocabulary of… read more
2014 Cross-regional differences in the perception of fricative devoicing Above and Beyond the Segments: Experimental linguistics and phonetics, Caspers, Johanneke, Yiya Chen, Willemijn Heeren, Jos Pacilly, Niels O. Schiller and Ellen van Zanten (eds.), pp. 230–245 | Article
In Dutch, onset /v/ is becoming voiceless. Regional differences have been
observed in the degree of devoicing and in the acoustic implementation of the
/v/–/f/ contrast. We test whether these regional differences – reflecting different
stages of the change in progress – are reflected in perception.… read more
2007 Phonological constraints in speech processing Linguistics in the Netherlands 2007, Los, Bettelou and Marjo van Koppen (eds.), pp. 99–111 | Article
2007 2. Representations of [voice]: Evidence from acquisition Voicing in Dutch: (De)voicing – phonology, phonetics, and psycholinguistics, Weijer, Jeroen van de and Erik Jan van der Torre (eds.), pp. 41–80 | Article
We consider two theories of laryngeal representation, one using a single feature [voice] generalizing across prevoicing languages and aspiration languages, and the other using multiple features: [voice] for pre-voicing languages and [spread glottis] for aspiration languages. We derive predictions… read more
1999 Preface Linguistics in the Netherlands 1999, Bezooijen, Renée van and René Kager (eds.), p. | Miscellaneous
1999 Surface Opacity of Metrical Structure in Optimality Theory The Derivational Residue in Phonological Optimality Theory, Hermans, Ben and Marc van Oostendorp (eds.), pp. 207–246 | Article
1998 Preface Linguistics in the Netherlands 1998, Bezooijen, Renée van and René Kager (eds.), p. | Miscellaneous
1995 On foot templates and root templates Linguistics in the Netherlands 1995, Dikken, Marcel den and Kees Hengeveld (eds.), pp. 125–138 | Article