Femke Swarte
List of John Benjamins publications in which Femke Swarte is involved.
Articles
2014 Does instruction about phonological correspondences contribute to the intelligibility of a related language? A study with speakers of Dutch learning Frisian Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 3:1, pp. 45–61 | Article
This paper investigates whether instruction about phonological correspondences between the native and a closely related language contributes to the intelligibility of this closely related language. Previous research has shown that closely related languages can be mutually intelligible to a certain… read more
2013 Do speakers of Dutch use their knowledge of German while processing written Danish words? Linguistics in the Netherlands 2013, Aalberse, Suzanne and Anita Auer (eds.), pp. 146–159 | Article
This paper elaborates on a factor that plays a role in receptive multilingualism, namely the influence of a second language (L2). We investigated whether knowledge of German can help Dutch people to decode written Danish words when they do not know any Danish. We instructed 32 participants with… read more